I am trying to parse data from a pipe-delimited text file hosted on another server which in turn will be inserted in a database. My host (1and1) disabled allow_url_fopen in php.ini I guess.

Error message :

Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in

Code :

    <?


// make sure curl is installed
if (function_exists('curl_init')) {
   // initialize a new curl resource
   $ch = curl_init(); 

   // set the url to fetch
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://abc.com/data/output.txt'); 

   // don't give me the headers just the content
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); 

   // return the value instead of printing the response to browser
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 

   // use a user agent to mimic a browser
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0'); 

   $content = curl_exec($ch); 

   // remember to always close the session and free all resources 
   curl_close($ch); 
} else {
   // curl library is not installed so we better use something else
}

//$contents = fread ($fd,filesize ($filename));

//fclose ($fd); 
$delimiter = "|";
$splitcontents = explode($delimiter, $contents);
$counter = "";
?>
<font color="blue" face="arial" size="4">Complete File Contents</font>
<hr>
<?
echo $contents;
?>

<br><br>
<font color="blue" face="arial" size="4">Split File Contents</font>
<hr>
<?
foreach ( $splitcontents as $color )
{

$counter = $counter+1;
echo "<b>Split $counter: </b> $colorn<br>";
}

?>

Wordpress has this cool http.php file. Is there a better way of doing it? If not, how do I use http.php for this task? Thank you guys..