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/import...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=hammy123&password=!roym!qvla1y' (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

And what is the reason to require an url instead of a file on local filesystem?

I don't know; I didn't write the code. If there's an alternate way to do it than I am open to suggestions....I just want it to work.

Thanks for your reply

Simply replace the url with the local file, and it should run.
So, (a wild guess, but) replace

PHP Code:

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

with

PHP Code:

<?php require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/importer/gmail.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>

Hey thanks for the reply,

What about that was a wild guess?

What about that was a wild guess?

The correct path :-)

My server does not allow me to use DOCUMENT_ROOT because it's, well, it's silly.

Is there a way I can address the local file without the document root script?

Then you need to know where on the file system the files are located.
The DOCUMENT_ROOT variable is populated by apache, and reflect the configuration of the virtual host.
If your hoster don't use apache, then you probably won't have that information.

So, given that the files are located at /var/www/yoursite/htdocs, you should use:

PHP Code:

<?php require("/var/www/yoursite/htdocs/importer/gmail.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>

I think your document root is
/home/a9272438/public_html
(maybe)

I think your document root is
/home/a9272438/public_html

Good call.
I didn't checked back the beginning of the thread.

I'm getting errors like this:
Warning: require(/import/importer/yahoo.php?username=notrealkjnk&password=notreal) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/a9272438/public_html/import/importer.php on line 45

Does this mean it is trying to address the file at /home/a9272438/public_html/import/importer.php/import/importer/yahoo.php?username=noreal&password=notreal

Please go to:
http://1dollar1day.org/import/index.php

Try the different email importers, each one has a different coding/file location yet none of them seem to work and some have different errors.

Note: You don't have to enter real emails or passwords. Something like 3254jl@gmail.com password:kjhwkj would still get the script submitted.

Note: My server DOES work through apache.

Note: The file address for gmail is E.G. - /public_html/import/importer/gmail.php

Here is the current coding for the different importers:

PHP Code:

   <?php
      switch($type):
    case 'yahoo':
        ?>
        <?php require("/import/importer/yahoo.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>
        <?php
    break;
    case 'hotmail':
        ?>
        <?php require("/home/a9272438/public_html/import/importer/hotmail.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?>
        <?php
    break;
    case 'gmail':
        ?>
        <?php require("/usr/local/apache/htdocs/home/a9272438/public_html/import/importer/gmail.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?> 
        <?php
        
    break;
    case 'aol':
        ?>
        <?php require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/import/importer/aol.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?> 
        <?php
        
    break;
    case 'msn':
        ?>
        <?php require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."importer/msn.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); ?> 
        <?php
        
    break;
    endswitch;
   ?>

Thanks to all of you for helping!

As already pointed out above, your root seems to be /home/a9272438/public_html
So your imports should say

PHP Code:

require("/home/a9272438/public_html/import/importer/yahoo.php?username=".$username."&password=".$password); 


as it already does for the import of hotmail.php

But hotmail.php still doesn't work.

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