[makaiguy]

Adding to my post, above, re URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration:

I found this is because my server has the PHP option allow_url_fopen disabled, thus preventing accessing the file via http. For importing static html, the solution in the above post was fine.

But one of my import files was a php file that generated some variable text depending on the date. When accessing this directly instead of as an http import, all I got was the static php code, not the RESULT of running the php code.

The support folks at the server suggested using their installed cURL library in place of get_file_contents(). The following modification to this hack in forumdisplay.php is now working for me:

PHP Code:

Replace:

$mycustomheader = file_get_contents("http://www.mydomain.com/forums/filename.php"):

With: 

   $ch = curl_init();
   $timeout = 5; // set to zero for no timeout
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.mydomain.com/forums/filename.php');
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
   $mycustomheader = curl_exec($ch);
   curl_close($ch); 


If you're having the same problem, check with your host as to whether they have the cURL library available.