[php] Server configuration by allow_url_fopen=0 in

I'm getting the following error when running a script. The error message is as follows...

Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: https:// wrapper is disabled in the server configuration by allow_url_fopen=0 in /home/satoship/public_html/connect.php on line 22

I know this is a server issue but what do I need to do to the server in order to get rid of the above warning?

THIS IS A VERY SIMPLE PROBLEM

Here is the best method for solve this problem.

Step 1 : Login to your cPanel (http://website.com/cpanel OR http://cpanel.website.com).

Step 2 : SOFTWARE -> Select PHP Version

Step 3 : Change Your Current PHP version : 5.6

Step 3 : HIT 'Set as current' [ ENJOY ]

@blytung Has a nice function to replace that function

<?php
$url = "http://www.example.org/";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$contents = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
  echo curl_error($ch);
  echo "\n<br />";
  $contents = '';
} else {
  curl_close($ch);
}

if (!is_string($contents) || !strlen($contents)) {
echo "Failed to get contents.";
$contents = '';
}

echo $contents;
?>    

Using relative instead of absolute file path solved the problem for me. I had the same issue and setting allow_url_fopen=on did not help. This means for instance :

use $file="folder/file.ext"; instead of $file="https://website.com/folder/file.ext"; in

$f=fopen($file,"r+");

Edit your php.ini, find allow_url_fopen and set it to allow_url_fopen = 1

Use this code in your php script (first lines)

ini_set('allow_url_fopen',1);