Hi, I have this piece of code that sends a request for a url
Code:
} 
 
// Make an http request to the specified URL and return the result 
 
function make_http_request($url){ 
      $ch = curl_init($url); 
 
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4); 
          curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
 
      $result = curl_exec($ch); 
 
      curl_close($ch); 
      return $result; 
}
But for one reason or another curl_init doesnt work. how do i convert this to another method like fopen or something, i have fidled with it but cant get it to work
please can someone have a look at this.
thanks

alex