In case you’re using PHP to retrieve data from a certain server you probably came across the problem that it may work for you but a client complained about lots of errors. It’s pretty likely that you’ve relied on the fact that allow_url_fopen is set to true. This way you can put pretty much anything – local path or a URL – into function calls like include or maybe simplexml_load_file.
PHP: Using cURL if allow_url_fopen is not enabled
December 2nd, 2009 — Tech