file-access disabled/no suitable wrapper error

[mmangoezz]

Hello users!

I am trying to set up a viral marketing contacts-importer and I keep coming up with a couple PHP errors.

You can see the page in question at:
http://1dollar1day.org/import/index.php

Feel free to try it yourself to see what I'm talking about, but when I enter my information for contacts to be imported, I get these errors:

Warning: require() [function.require]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/a9272438/public_html/import/importer.php on line 55

Warning: require(http://1dollar1day.org/import/importer/gmail.php?username=myEmailHere&password=MyPasswordHere) [function.require]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/a9272438/public_html/import/importer.php on line 55
*actual "myEmailHere" & password removed for obvious reasons.

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'http://1dollar1day.org/import/importer/gmail.php?username=user&password=pass' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/a9272438/public_html/import/importer.php on line 55

NOTE: Line 55 is relative to the GMAIL importing option, that number will vary depending on the email option selected. Regardless, the coding is the same for each email importing process.

Below is the importer.php code. Line 55 has been bolded red for easy finding.

<?php
include("include/session.php");
define("WEB_URL",get_web_root_url());

if (isset($_GET['type']))
{
    $type = $_GET['type'];
}
if (isset($_GET['username']))
{
    $username = $_GET['username'];
}

if (isset($_GET['password']))
{
    $password = $_GET['password'];
}


?>
<form name='arrayForm' id='arrayForm' method='post' action='sendemail.php'>
<table border="0" width="80%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" height="105" id="table1">
  <tr>
    <td height="25" colspan="2" bgcolor="#000000"> <p align="center" class="white"><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>
        send email to your friends</b></font></p>

</td>
<td bgcolor="#000000" height="25"><div align="right"><A href="#send"><p align="right" class="white">send</p></a></div></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#Ffffff" height="1" colspan="3"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="25%" bgcolor="#F3F3F3" height="25"> <p align="left" class="Black"><input type=checkbox name=all1  id=all1 value=1 onclick=checkMessages(this)><b>Select/DeSelect All</b></p></td>
    <td width="40%" bgcolor="#F3F3F3"><p align="center" class="Black"><b>Email Address</b></p></td>
    <td width="35%" bgcolor="#F3F3F3" height="12" class="Black"><p align="center" class="Black"><b>Name</b></p></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="1" colspan="3"></td>
  </tr>
     <?php
      switch($type):
    case 'yahoo':
        ?>
        <?php require(WEB_URL."importer/yahoo.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>
        <?php
    break;
    case 'hotmail':
        ?>
        <?php require(WEB_URL."importer/hotmail.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>
        <?php
    break;
    case 'gmail':
        ?>
       <?php require(WEB_URL."importer/gmail.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>
        <?php

break;
case 'aol':
    ?>
    <?php require(WEB_URL."importer/aol.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>
    <?php

break;
case 'msn':
    ?>
    <?php require(WEB_URL."importer/msn.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>
    <?php

break;
endswitch;
   ?>
  <tr>
    <td width="211" bgcolor="#F3F3F3" height="25"> <p align="left" class="Black"><input type=checkbox name=all2  id=all2 value=1 onclick=checkMessages(this)><b>Select/DeSelect All</b></p></td>
    <td width="207" bgcolor="#F3F3F3">&nbsp;</td>
    <td width="368" bgcolor="#F3F3F3" height="12" class="Black">&nbsp; </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="1" colspan="3"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="211" bgcolor="#F3F3F3" height="25"> <p align="left" class="Black">Subject</p></td>
    <td width="207" bgcolor="#F3F3F3" colspan="2"><input type="text" name="subject" id="subject" value="" size="50"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="1" colspan="3"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="211" bgcolor="#F3F3F3" height="25" valign="top"> <p align="left" class="Black">
    Email Body
    </p></td>
    <td width="207" bgcolor="#F3F3F3" colspan="2">
    <textarea name="emailbody" id="emailbody" cols="50" rows="15"></textarea>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="1" colspan="3"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#F3F3F3">
    <td height="25" colspan="3"> <p align="center">
        <input type='button' name='bsendemail' value='Send Email' onclick='javascript:sendemail();'>
        &nbsp;
        <input name="Submit2" type="reset" id="Submit2" value="Reset">
        <a name="send"></a>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
</form>


<?php
  function show() {
    return "";
  }
  // server side function call
  include_once("include/agent.php");
?>

Thanks in advance for any help,
Good day!

• Jason

[mmangoezz]

Below is the importer.php code. Line 55 has been bolded red for easy finding.

<?php
include("include/session.php");
define("WEB_URL",get_web_root_url());

if (isset($_GET['type']))
{
    $type = $_GET['type'];
}
if (isset($_GET['username']))
{
    $username = $_GET['username'];
}

if (isset($_GET['password']))
{
    $password = $_GET['password'];
}


?>
<form name='arrayForm' id='arrayForm' method='post' action='sendemail.php'>
<table border="0" width="80%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" height="105" id="table1">
  <tr> 
    <td height="25" colspan="2" bgcolor="#000000"> <p align="center" class="white"><font color="#FFFFFF"><b> 
        send email to your friends</b></font></p>

</td>
<td bgcolor="#000000" height="25"><div align="right"><A href="#send"><p align="right" class="white">send</p></a></div></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td bgcolor="#Ffffff" height="1" colspan="3"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td width="25%" bgcolor="#F3F3F3" height="25"> <p align="left" class="Black"><input type=checkbox name=all1  id=all1 value=1 onclick=checkMessages(this)><b>Select/DeSelect All</b></p></td>
    <td width="40%" bgcolor="#F3F3F3"><p align="center" class="Black"><b>Email Address</b></p></td>
    <td width="35%" bgcolor="#F3F3F3" height="12" class="Black"><p align="center" class="Black"><b>Name</b></p></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="1" colspan="3"></td>
  </tr>
     <?php
      switch($type):
    case 'yahoo':
        ?>
        <?php require(WEB_URL."importer/yahoo.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>
        <?php
    break;
    case 'hotmail':
        ?>
        <?php require(WEB_URL."importer/hotmail.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>
        <?php
    break;
    case 'gmail':
        ?>
[B] [COLOR=Red]        <?php require(WEB_URL."importer/gmail.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?> [/COLOR][/B]
        <?php

break;
case 'aol':
    ?>
    <?php require(WEB_URL."importer/aol.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?> 
    <?php

break;
case 'msn':
    ?>
    <?php require(WEB_URL."importer/msn.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?> 
    <?php

break;
endswitch;
   ?>
  <tr> 
    <td width="211" bgcolor="#F3F3F3" height="25"> <p align="left" class="Black"><input type=checkbox name=all2  id=all2 value=1 onclick=checkMessages(this)><b>Select/DeSelect All</b></p></td>
    <td width="207" bgcolor="#F3F3F3">&nbsp;</td>
    <td width="368" bgcolor="#F3F3F3" height="12" class="Black">&nbsp; </td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="1" colspan="3"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td width="211" bgcolor="#F3F3F3" height="25"> <p align="left" class="Black">Subject</p></td>
    <td width="207" bgcolor="#F3F3F3" colspan="2"><input type="text" name="subject" id="subject" value="" size="50"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="1" colspan="3"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td width="211" bgcolor="#F3F3F3" height="25" valign="top"> <p align="left" class="Black">
    Email Body
    </p></td>
    <td width="207" bgcolor="#F3F3F3" colspan="2">
    <textarea name="emailbody" id="emailbody" cols="50" rows="15"></textarea>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="1" colspan="3"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#F3F3F3"> 
    <td height="25" colspan="3"> <p align="center"> 
        <input type='button' name='bsendemail' value='Send Email' onclick='javascript:sendemail();'>
        &nbsp; 
        <input name="Submit2" type="reset" id="Submit2" value="Reset">
        <a name="send"></a>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
</form>


<?php
  function show() {
    return "";
  } 
  // server side function call
  include_once("include/agent.php");
?>

[bradgrafelman]

If you just want to retrieve the contents of a remote page and display it, it's better to use something like [man]file_get_contents/man or [man]readfile/man.

Then again, since all of those scripts appear to reside on your server, why use a URL in the first place? Note that accessing a file via a URL is not the same as accessing it locally via a local file path (e.g. "../importer/gmail.php").

[mmangoezz]

I'm not sure why the original coder did this, but I am not that person. I am simply trying to make the script work for my site. Will changing the URL to something like file_get_contents or readfile fix my problem??

Thanks for the reply

[halojoy]

Can often be these 2 settings
that are turned OFF in php.ini at your host:
allow_url_fopen
allow_url_include

Try to remove WEB_URL. from

        <?php require(WEB_URL."importer/yahoo.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>

There are 5 lines where you have 'WEB_URL'.
I have fixed the 2 first.
You do the rest
like this:

     <?php
      switch($type):
    case 'yahoo':
        ?>
        <?php require("importer/yahoo.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>
        <?php
    break;
    case 'hotmail':
        ?>
        <?php require("importer/hotmail.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>
        <?php
    break;
    case 'gmail':
        ?>
       <?php require(WEB_URL."importer/gmail.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>
        <?php

break;
case 'aol':
    ?>
    <?php require(WEB_URL."importer/aol.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>
    <?php

break;
case 'msn':
    ?>
    <?php require(WEB_URL."importer/msn.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>
    <?php

break;
endswitch;
   ?>

[bradgrafelman]

halojoy wrote:

Try to remove WEB_URL

Won't work: local paths can't have query strings (the two topics are orthogonal in principal; query strings are parsed by a webserver - a local file path is just... a file path).

You either need to a) re-work the variables in the script such that they use global variables you can define in the parent script, e.g.:

$username = 'foo';
include('includes/myscript.php'); // myscript.php then references $username in the global scope

or else yes, you'll have to use something like [man]readfile/man, [man]file_get_contents/man (and echo out the contents), etc.

Note, however, that the latter of the two solutions is suboptimal; that means that every request to your webserver will generate another web request (one per request you make, so 5 readfile()'s with URLs = 5 internal requests) from itself to itself just to retrieve some data.

[mmangoezz]

bradgrafelman;10941063 wrote:

Won't work: local paths can't have query strings (the two topics are orthogonal in principal; query strings are parsed by a webserver - a local file path is just... a file path).

You either need to a) re-work the variables in the script such that they use global variables you can define in the parent script, e.g.:

$username = 'foo';
include('includes/myscript.php'); // myscript.php then references $username in the global scope

or else yes, you'll have to use something like [man]readfile/man, [man]file_get_contents/man (and echo out the contents), etc.

Note, however, that the latter of the two solutions is suboptimal; that means that every request to your webserver will generate another web request (one per request you make, so 5 readfile()'s with URLs = 5 internal requests) from itself to itself just to retrieve some data.

Hey, thanks for the response.

I am not real familiar with PHP, how would I implement global scripts? If this is my code:

         <?php require(WEB_URL."importer/gmail.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?> 

[johanafm]

If you

require 'http://example.com/?var=val&var2=val2';

The result is the exact same thing as if you opened that address in a web browser. Except, your server does the request. It also happens to do this request to itself. But it is still an http request.

But, since you require/include code, you allready have whatever information you need at hand, right there.

Example, minus the opening and closing php tags
file1

$var = 'val';
echo 'require 'file2<br/>';
require 'file2.php';

file2

echo $var;

Output

require file2
val

Example 2
file1

$var = $val;
require 'file2.php';

showVar($var);

file2

function showVar($printMe) {
	echo $printMe . '<br/>';

// error. $var is in global scope and not (directly) accessible in function scope
echo $var;	
}

[mmangoezz]

Like I said, I am new to PHP and I'm not fully grasping what you are telling me.

I truly appreciate the help but I can fix the problem if I don't understand the change necessary.

What is the significance of file1 and file2? In your example could you please relate it to my variables, and my files?

Thank you.

[johanafm]

file1: whatever the filename is of the script you are running
file2: whatever the name is of any file you want to include/require. Yes, that means file2 could actually be 50 different filenames in your code.

What I showed you is how the include/require works (pretty much like if you just copy pasted the contents over the line "require 'filename.php'"... and how to access variables in a php script.
When you allready have the variable, and a means of accessing that variable directly, there is no need to send it around the world to access it in a different way.

[mmangoezz]

So basically the new code would change from this:

<?php require(WEB_URL."importer/yahoo.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>

To this:

$?username=".$username."&password=".$password = 'val';
echo 'require 'yahoo<br/>';
require 'importer/yahoo.php'; 

Probably not, but this is what I'm getting out of it.

[johanafm]

You allready have $username and $password. No need to do anything with those.
require 'yahoo.php';
or possibly
require '/path/to/yahoo.php';

And in yahoo.php, instead of $_GET['username'] etc, just $username.

[mmangoezz]

I have $password and $username already, yes, but if I change the code then I won't have it anymore?

What modification is necessary for

<?php require(WEB_URL."importer/yahoo.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?> 

Because if I replace this with the code you suggested, I would no longer have $username and $password.

[bradgrafelman]

mmangoezz wrote:

Because if I replace this with the code you suggested, I would no longer have $username and $password.

Yes, you would.

$username is a variable defined in the global scope of that script. Basically, that just means it's a variable that was defined outside of any function, class, etc. Now, any script you include/require() within this script will share the same global scope as this script. For example:

index.php

<?php

$username = 'foo';
require('user.php');

?>

user.php

<?php

echo "Hello there, $user!" // output: Hello there, foo!

?>

If you visited user.php directly, yes, $user wouldn't exist. But if you visit index.php, user.php gets included into the index.php script and thus shares the variables in the global scope.