On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Watson Blair <bestudios.wb@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > ah, i forgot to properly phrase my question... what am i doing wrong, and > how do i make it work? slash, could you guys/girls point me towards a > tutorial that will give me a hand? > Thanks again, > Watson > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Watson Blair <bestudios.wb@xxxxxxxxx > >wrote: > > > Hey all, i'm sure i'm missing something glaringly obvious, but i have yet > > to find a solution to this online... so heres the line of code that i'm > > getting hung up on: > > > > <?php include_once("http://www.jennysjunket.com/magpierss/rss_fetch.inc > > ");?> > > > > which gives me this: > > > > *Warning*: include() [function.include]: URL file-access is disabled in > > the server configuration in */home/content/81/5634781/html/ebay.php* on > > line*1* > > > > *Warning*: include(http://www.jennysjunket.com/magpierss/rss_fetch.inc) > [ > > function.include]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be > > found in */home/content/81/5634781/html/ebay.php* on line *1* > > > > *Warning*: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ' > > http://www.jennysjunket.com/magpierss/rss_fetch.inc' for inclusion > > (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in * > > /home/content/81/5634781/html/ebay.php* on line *1* > > * > > * > > ive got all of my permissions set as open as i can, but i'm > > still baffled about it. > > Thanks, > > Watson > > > There are several potential problems with trying to use include_once (same issues as include()) when trying to retrieve a resource by URL: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php Try file_get_contents instead, as in the below example: <?php file_get_contents("http://www.jennysjunket.com/magpierss/rss_fetch.inc ");?> And if that's not enabled on your server, try using CURL as outlined in this tutorial: http://phpsense.com/php/php-curl-functions.html Adam -- Nephtali: PHP web framework that functions beautifully http://nephtaliproject.com