[pmwiki-users] Keeping recipes up to date

[Sandy]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:35:58PM +0100, Anno wrote:
>>> However, the recipeupdates.php script requires that PHP be configured
>>> to allow url fopens, and many web hosting providers have this
>>> capability turned off as a security precaution.

Is there a quick way we amateurs can tell?

> Along similar lines, the blocklist.php script uses url-based
> fopen for automatically downloading blocklists, but I haven't
> heard of many instances of sites not being able to use the
> automatic downloads.  (Perhaps nobody's using them, or they're
> just going unreported.)

I never got that one working. Gave up fairly quickly because I don't 
really need it. So count it as a possible, unverified report of not working.

Sandy