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Facebook - This plugin requires the allow_url_fopen php.ini setting.

edited May 2011 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8
I tried to enable Facebook plugin for my forum. But i am getting the following error. What is the solution for this? Kindly help me on this.

Error: This plugin requires the allow_url_fopen php.ini setting.

Comments

  • ToddTodd Chief Product Officer Vanilla Staff
    Just that. It requires that setting. If you are on a host that does not allow you to change your php.ini then the facebook plugin will not work.
  • pengodampengodam New
    edited August 2011
    @todd Thank for responds
  • My host does let me change the php.ini file, but I still have no idea what I should do, even though I now understand that it "requires that setting".

    This response is very unhelpful. It might as well be saying "and if you don't know what that means, you shouldn't be touching it anyway".

  • peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited May 2012

    nicepaul said:
    My host does let me change the php.ini file, but I still have no idea what I should do, even though I now understand that it "requires that setting".>

    This response is very unhelpful. It might as well be saying "and if you don't know what that means, you shouldn't be touching it anyway".>

    Perhaps True. The person who asked the question in the above post seemed to be satisfied.

    It's really a question for php forums if you don't know how.

    Perhaps you could have framed your response:

    "Could someone please give me assistance on how to change it"

    Here's a list of links to possibly help you - I have not done it myself, so this all I can provide.

    http://php.net/manual/en/function.ini-set.php

    http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.list.php

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/127534/should-i-allow-allow-url-fopen-in-php>

    probably throw the lines in the top of index.html
    or default.master.php or default.master.tpl or whatever those names are.

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

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