URL file-access is disabled in the server

Warning: file_get_contents(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /xxx/web/forum/ad_network.php on line 36

Warning: file_get_contents(http://ads.digitalpoint.com/network.php?s=xxx&type=link): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /xxx/web/forum/ad_network.php on line 36

and now what?

 

Try this in ad_network.php

<?php
if (!function_exists('url_fopen')) 
{
		
function url_fopen ($url)
{
       $user_agent = "Mozilla/8.0 (Windows 2008 SP32 + 3patch)";
       $ch = curl_init();
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt");
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 120);
       $string = curl_exec ($ch);
       curl_close($ch);
       return $string;
}
}
	
	if (!function_exists('make_seed')) {
		function make_seed() {
			list($usec, $sec) = explode(' ', microtime());
			return (float) $sec + ((float) $usec * 100000);
		}
		srand (make_seed());
	}

	if (!isset($_SERVER)) $_SERVER = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS;

	$ad_file = 'ad_network_ads.txt';
	for ($i = 0; $i <= 11; $i++) {
		$p = substr ('../../../../../../../../../../', 0, $i * 3);
		if (file_exists ($p . $ad_file)) {
			$ad_file = $p . $ad_file;
			break;
		}
	}

	if (is_writable ($ad_file)) {
		$ads = file_get_contents ($ad_file);
		$ads = explode ('<ad_break>', $ads);

		if (count ($ads) < 401 || $ads[0] + 900 < time()) {
			$new_ad = url_fopen ('http://ads.digitalpoint.com/network.php?s=' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . '&type=link');
			$ads[] = $new_ad;
			$ads[0] = time();
			if (count ($ads) > 401) unset ($ads[1]);
			if ($new_ad) {
				$file = fopen($ad_file, 'r+');
				if (flock ($file, LOCK_EX)) {
					fwrite ($file, implode ('<ad_break>', $ads));
					ftruncate ($file, ftell($file));
					flock ($file, LOCK_UN);
				}
				fclose ($file);
			}
			$ad = end ($ads);
		} else {
			$ad = $ads[rand(1,count($ads) - 1)];
		}
		$ad_network[] = $ad;
		while (count ($ad_network) < 5) {
			$ad_network[] = $ads[rand(1,count($ads) - 1)];
		}
	} else {
		$ad_network[] = 'You must set the "ad_network_ads.txt" file to be writable.';
	}
	if (substr (@$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_NAME'], -6) == '.shtml') {
		ini_set ('zlib.output_compression', 0);
		echo end ($ad_network);
	}

?>

Code (markup):

 

ask your hosting company to switch it on. It's a PHP function called Http wrapper.

It's standard and there is no reason to not have this on.

M

If they can't you may want to consider to go to a real host