DreamHost has disabled the PHP option allow_url_fopen.

Not working  file_get_contents() . The CURL library provides a feature-rich alternative.

Example:

Use:

$file_contents = 

file_get_contents('http://dreamhost.com/');

 // display file 

 echo $file_contents; 

Use:

$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 10; // set to zero for no timeout
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://dreamhost.com');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$file_contents = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// display file
echo $file_contents;

 or even better, hides the cURL stuff in a function...

// function to replace file_get_contents()
function file_get_the_contents($url) {
  $ch = curl_init();
  $timeout = 10; // set to zero for no timeout
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
  $file_contents = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  return $file_contents;
}