WP RSS DFirefox

I get this error message:

Warning: fopen(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/.milkyheater/poffutt/paulaoffutt.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-rssdfirefox.php on line 22

Warning: fopen(https://www.spreadfirefox.com/download_counter.php?ff=1): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/.milkyheater/poffutt/paulaoffutt.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-rssdfirefox.php on line 22
Error al leer los datos del feed.

I have yet to get any of the Firefox download counters to work. Must be bad karma.

your server (dreamhost?) doesn’t allow fopen() to open remote urls, so you will probably need to find something that uses curl instead.

Here’s some code that works with dreamhost…

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Firefox download counter
Description: Shows the download counter of Mozilla Firefox.
use: <?php echo ff_counter(); ?> anywhere on your page. your can also pass a sprintf str .
*/
function get_ff_count() {
$ch = curl_init('https://www.spreadfirefox.com/download_counter.php?ff=1');
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
if($xml) {
preg_match( '@(?:<description>)([0-9,]+)(?:</description>)@', $xml,$match);
return $match[0];
}
return false;
}

function ff_counter($outputstr = null){
if(is_null($outputstr))
$outputstr = '%s people have downloaded Firefox.';
if($count = get_ff_count())
return sprintf($outputstr, $count);
return false;
}
?>