Anyone familiar with this ERROR: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION...??

Hi Guys,

Not sure why I get the following error on my page. Your advise is greatly appreciated:

"Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /home/tlimgh/public_html/starthomebusiness/inc/rss.inc on line 112"

My web site: http://www.starthomebusiness.info/

What safe_mode on my server settings is this? What can I do to resolve this. My rss.inc code is as follows:

<?php include("inc/ads-top.inc"); ?>
<?php

echo '<p><b><h1>Home Business News</h1></b></p>';
$nr_news=3;
$rssfile=$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/rsslist.txt";
$rssurls=file($rssfile);
$rand=rand(1,count($rssurls))-1;
$file = $rssurls[$rand];

$rss_channel = array();
$currently_writing = "";
$main = "";
$item_counter = 0;

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
global $rss_channel, $currently_writing, $main;
switch($name) {
case "RSS":
case "RDF:RDF":
case "ITEMS":
$currently_writing = "";
break;
case "CHANNEL":
$main = "CHANNEL";
break;
case "IMAGE":
$main = "IMAGE";
$rss_channel["IMAGE"] = array();
break;
case "ITEM":
$main = "ITEMS";
break;
default:
$currently_writing = $name;
break;
}
}

function endElement($parser, $name) {
global $rss_channel, $currently_writing, $item_counter;
$currently_writing = "";
if ($name == "ITEM") {
$item_counter++;
}
}

function characterData($parser, $data) {
global $rss_channel, $currently_writing, $main, $item_counter;
if ($currently_writing != "") {
switch($main) {
case "ITEMS":
if (isset($rss_channel[$main][$item_counter][$currently_writing])) {
$rss_channel[$main][$item_counter][$currently_writing] .= $data;
} else {
//print ("rss_channel[$main][$item_counter][$currently_writing] = $data<br>");
$rss_channel[$main][$item_counter][$currently_writing] = $data;
}
break;
}
}
}

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
/*
if (!($fp = fopen($file, "r"))) {
die("could not open XML input");
}

/*
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) {
die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
}
}
*/
$data=curl_string($file);
xml_parse($xml_parser,$data);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

// putting in array
$news=array();
if (isset($rss_channel["ITEMS"]))
{
if (count($rss_channel["ITEMS"]) > 0)
for($i = 0;$i < count($rss_channel["ITEMS"]);$i++) $news[]=$rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i];
}
$c=0;
foreach($news as $key=>$val)
{
if($c<$nr_news)
{
echo "<p align=left>";
echo '<a href="'.$val['LINK'].'">'.$val['TITLE'].'</a> - '.$val['PUBDATE'].'<br>'.''.$val['DESCRIPTION'].'</font></p>';
}
$c++;
}


function curl_string ($url,$user_agent='Mozilla 4.0'){

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 120);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $result;

}

?>

 

Hello,

Run a phpinfo(); and check what safemode is. It is an ini setting in which you can perform a ini_set.

This should work:

ini_set ( 'safemode', false );

Code (markup):

ini_set ( 'safemode', true );

Code (markup):

Depending on which one safemode is set to, change the opposite.

 

Chaos King,

Thanks for the advise it works now!

Tim

 

WHOA! That is bad advice!

Before you just turn off safe mode, I think you should investigate the ramifications of that. You may open yourself up to security issues.

Now let's look at what's really happening.

CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION tells CURL when fetching a URL to follow redirect headers. If you are not hitting a page that is redirected, and why should it be to begin with?, a better option is to elimiate that setting being set to true.

I think you should take a closer look at the implications of just turning off safe mode. Seriously!