My host is not allowing this

I bought a script a few days ago, and I tried to install it. Nothing worked, and I had to contact the creator. He told me that the reason it doesn't work is because my host is not allowing

allow_url_fopen

I am wondering if there is another way to get the script to work at my current host without using this function?

This is the email I received from my host:

The url_fopen feature can be used to compromise hosted accounts and even entire servers. As such, nearly all commercial hosting providers have "allow_url_fopen" disabled. File handling functions like fopen, file_get_contents, and include accept URLs as file parameters (for example: fopen('http://www.example.com/', 'r')). Even though this enables developers to access remote resources like HTTP URLs, it poses as a huge security risk if the filename is taken from user input without proper sanitization, and opens the door for remote code execution on the server.

General recommendation:

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The best way to bring in live data from another http source is to use curl rather than fopen. If you do a google.com search using terms such as:

allow_url_fopen off

or

allow_url_fopen off curl​

As you probably understand by now, I don't have a clue what he is talking about

Thanks

Jens

 

You have recode that part using curl ,check
http://us3.php.net/curl/ .

 

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