brettbrewer.com

You may have notice that my site was displaying an error message across the top of the screen recently, due to my web host disabling "allow_url_fopen" in the PHP config (php.ini), which broke my Skype class that shows my Skype status. Today I finally got around to fixing it. Here's the code change I made, which should be easy to use as an example if you run into similar problems:

 Old Code:

$num = file($this->url);
$this->status = $num[0];

New Code:

// Establish a cURL handle
$ch = curl_init($this->url);
     
// Set cURL options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
     
// Execute the cURL request
$num = curl_exec($ch);
 

// Close the cURL session.
curl_close($ch);

$this->status = $num[0];

A little more code to do the same thing as before, but apparently this is safer than keeping "allow_url_fopen" enabled.