[Mediawiki-l] PHP problem: file($url) not working from my MediaWiki extension

Thu Aug 3 02:05:52 UTC 2006

Martin Jambon wrote:
> Sorry if this is a trivial PHP question, but I can't figure out why I 
> can't make the file function work from inside a MediaWiki extension, 
> while it works perfectly when executed independently from Mediawiki (see 
> code at the end of the message).

MediaWiki disables allow_url_fopen by default as a precaution.

Note that current versions of PHP apparently don't actually take effect on that
change at runtime.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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