Monthly Archives: October 2008

After changing hosting companies I was having problems with the message:URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration In the end the simple solution is to replace: $xml = simplexml_load_file($request_url) or die(“url not loading”); with $ch = curl_init($request_url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $response = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); $xml = simplexml_load_string($response);

I’ve been having problems with various web sites thinking that I’m in Ireland not in the UK – google and the BBC among others which is something of a nuisance especially when try to use the BBC iPlayer.I tried renewing my DHCP binding to get a new IP address but that didn’t work.It turns out […]