replacement: fopen -> fsockopen - need a quick´n dirty hack

[metabo]

g ´day all here,


i traveled alot for examples and descriptions about the amazon web services. i came across many many sites for Amazon scripts that are easy.

i want to show on my homepage a number of 40 books. i am not a experienced php programmer - i am able to understand a bit of php but i am new to it. i had a look at a site with some nice scripts for Amazon web services.

http://www.chipdir.nl/amazon/

This site offers great insights into the AWS-technology.

But my server is limited to some restricted settings: i have no allow_url_fopen - to say it in other words my serverconfiguration option allow_url_fopen is set to OFF!

i only can make usage of fsockopen - so i only can make usage of scripts that work around the issues.

i want to run a site with a phpnuke. There is a great module that uses amazon web services - see http://preciogasolina.com/nukeamazon.html

but this script makes usage of the fopen. well i need a work around for this.

just another question - regarding another amazon script - here a PHP-Nuke module, called NukeAmazion:

the NukeAmazon, a phpnuke-module - makes usage of the fopen-function. it is a great and most wanted module. Since the mod runs in many many sites - and probably could run in much much more sites - somebody should replace the fopen with a method that is more appropiate here - your fsockopen. could you provide us with some guidlelines - how to replace the fopen with a better solution.

Well - here is the stuff.

http://preciogasolina.com/nukeamazon.html

see a thread of a user who complains the bad situation - and suggestes Curl as a solution

http://www.preciogasolina.com/module...iewtopic&t=344

here is the stuff
http://www.preciogasolina.com/module...download&cid=1

well - the replacement should be only in one place - in the functions-file called functions.php : This file can be found in the includes-directory. the structure is the following:

http://www.preciogasolina.com


/admin
/blocks
/images
/includes/ functions.php
/modules

well - the only place where we can find fopen () function is here in the file

in the functions.php (which is in the includes-folder)

function AMZ_file_get_contents($filename)
{
$fp = @fopen($filename, "r");
if (!($fp))
{
return 0;
}
while (!feof($fp))
{
$temp .= utf8_decode(fread($fp, 4096));
}
fclose($fp);
return $temp;
}

that would be great. I try to do it on my own - and if you have some hints - how to patch then plz. let us know.

BTW; after this is done i will to patch the amazon-module
of this site. - also a great site; A standalone-script which is very very nice. http://www.accessories.me.uk a great script.... see it running. Well if you could guide us here it would be very nice.


if anybody could give some hints - if anybody could provide some advices and guidings then i would be very glad. You would make some most wanted script even more appropiate - and useable in real world scenarios. Since many many servers do not provide a fopen (), we could - should work around this serious bottlenneck.
What do you think

look forward to hear a answer



many greetings

metabo

[daniele_dll]

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