Petfinder is down for the moment. Please check back shortly.

Change your shelter ID to NY201 and it should work. Petfinder doesn’t like ny201.

https://api.petfinder.com/shelter.getPets?key=b96da5c010ff044828eec935885c5870&count=75&id=NY201&output=full

Thank you! It worked! Another question. Is it possible to list the animals by gender? We use that system of classification, and would like to continue using it.

I will start a new topic on that question.

Sorry to hijack this thread, but I am having the exact problem as well.

It is a fresh install of WordPress and Petfinder plugin. All I have on the page is:
[shelter_list]

I have tried numerous shelter IDs including the one mentioned above with no success.

Also, how do I track the XML output?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I found the code to uncomment to output the XML in the petfinders-listing.php.

It is only outputting the URL, and when I try to var_dump the $xml variable, it outputs bool(false) meaning that $xml is not valid.

When I create a separate PHP script with $xml = simplexml_load_file(URL) and var_dump($xml), I get the correct output.

Sorry for spamming this topic up. I uploaded my standalone PHP file to my server and it fails similar to the plugin, so it seems to be a server issue (works on local).

I do not know what could be causing this, but it does not seem to be because of your plugin.

If you have any insight as to what could be causing this problem, it would be great. Otherwise, have a nice day.

Hi rawrzors –

Could you put up a file with just the following code?

<?php echo phpinfo() ?>

Go to that page in a web browser check to see if the following is turned On:
allow_url_fopen

If that is turned on, can you uncomment line 198 in the petfinder-listings.php file (looks like this echo “https://api.petfinder.com/shelter.getPets?key=&#8221; . $petf_options[“apikey”] . “&count=” . intval($count) . “&id=” . $shelter_id . “&output=full”;) then go to the page with your [shelter_list] shortcode and past that string here?

Last post — I SWEAR!

Finally figured out the problem, I will post solutions incase any others run into similar issues.

I am using a shared host, so a lot of features are disabled, including some that are necessary to run this plugin.

To fix this, I created a php.ini file in my main WordPress folder (level that has .htaccess) and put the following in it:

allow_url_fopen 1
allow_url_include 1

These m

and BAM! It works ??

Thanks for such an awesome plugin!

I’m glad you were able to figure that out. I turn those on at the top of the php file, but apparently some webhosts don’t allow that. Can you tell me where you are hosting in case this comes up again?

I am using Anhosting/Midphase. A lot of cheap webhosts (<$6/month) do not allow access of the top php.ini.

I had figured it out 1 minute before you posted :p

I have Earthlink, and they do not allow me to edit the php.ini either.

rawrzors, thank you for “spamming” this thread. your solution worked for me!!

I’m receiving the Petfinder is down for the moment. Please check back shortly. message too. I verified the Shelter ID is proper case…VA118. When I submit a request manually I get the following response…

<petfinder xmlns:xsi=”https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&#8221; xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=”https://api.petfinder.com/schemas/0.9/petfinder.xsd”&gt;
<header>
<version>0.1</version>
<timestamp>2013-12-22T13:39:49Z</timestamp>
<status>
100
<message/>
</status>
</header>
<lastOffset/>
<pets/>
</petfinder>

We have pets listed. I sent an email off to Petfinder as well to see if it is something with our account. Any ideas as to why nothing is being returned or suggestions on how to trouble shoot?

Usually this means Petfinder needs to be configured to send your data through its API.

Could you try doing the following on your petfinder account:

“If the list is not working after correctly entering all your Petfinder Listings Settings and the page displays a status of ‘shelter opt-out’, make sure your Petfinder account is set up to share data through Petfinder’s API. To do this, log into your Petfinder account and click on the Organization Info tab. Look for the box labeled ‘Share Pet List’ and make sure all checkboxes within this box are selected: Please share my pet list with all third parties, Partner sites & Petfinder API users.”

That did it! Thank you so much the help!!