[WOOKIE-332] wookie php connector relies on file_get_contents which is sometimes disabled

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.12.0, 0.13.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Connection Framework
• Labels: patch
• Environment: GNU/Linux 2.6.32-220.2.1.el6.x86_64; php5; elgg platform
• Assignee: Kris Popat
• Reporter: Lucas Anastasiou
• Created: 17/Apr/12 15:31
• Updated: 02/Feb/14 21:26

Description

Since a few weeks ago our server admin disabled php's function
file_get_contents (for security reasons) which resulted for our elgg
plugin not to work.

I did a quick goole search and found that disabling file_get_contents
is quite usual in virtual servers setups - dreamhost for example has
it locked.
In the other hand curl might not be enabled as well but i guess is
more likely for file_get_contents to be unavailable instead of curl