Making XML Google Maps Work With Dreamhost

Dreamhost has disabled the fopen() php call because of security reasons (fopen() [function.fopen]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration).

An alternative is the CURL library.

This is how you have to modify the XML Google Maps plugin

Before:

  function parse($path) {

  $this→output = "";

  if (!($fp = fopen($path, "r";))) {

  die("Cannot open XML data file: $path";);

  return false;

  }

  $filecontent = "";

  [/sourcecode]

  
After:


  [sourcecode language=‘php']

  function parse($path) {

  $this→output = "";

  $ch = curl_init($path);

  $fp = @fopen("temp.xml";, "w";);

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

  curl_exec($ch);

  curl_close($ch);

  fclose($fp);

  $file = "temp.xml";;

  $fp = fopen($file, "r";);

  $filecontent = "";