[theme-reviewers] fopen, fgets and freads errors

Sat Jul 16 21:14:32 UTC 2011

What version of WP are they using?

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Tom Matteson
<perspectivevision at gmail.com>wrote:

> Darren ... the first one switched to using a different theme because they
> could not resolve this. However, his WordPress installation was in a
> subdirectory (see the errors below **with the user's domain and subdirectory
> edited**) I do know the first user's site was hosted by surpasshosting dot
> com and per their security settings they would not enable allow_url_fopen
> ... other than that I am unaware of their php.ini settings
>
>
> Warning:
> fopen(
> http://primarydomain.com/sub-directory/wp-content/themes/wordsmith-anvil/style.css
> )
> [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be
> found in
> /home/primaryd/public_html/sub-directory/wp-includes/functions.php on line
> 4284
>
> Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in
> /home/primaryd/public_html/sub-directory/wp-includes/functions.php on line
> 4287
>
> Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in
> /home/primaryd/public_html/sub-directory/wp-includes/functions.php on line
> 4290"
>
> One thing I had read somewhere is that using absolute paths (direct links)
> as opposed to relative paths could cause these errors to appear. In the
> Wordsmith Anvil theme the only direct links are:
>
>
>    - Developer and WordPress.org credit links (common with most all
>    themes)
>    - Link to FAQ and Theme Home page in Admin Theme Options Page (fairly
>    common)
>    - Various license links (common with all themes)
>    - Direct links assigned to Social Media variables for Twitter, FB,
>    Flickr, YouTube ...[eg $flickrurl = 'http://www.flickr.com/photos/';]
>    (common to themes with these options)
>
>
> The second user's site is hosted with secureserver.net (there apparently
> have been some errors with that host server and WordPress in the past see:
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/defaultsecureservernet)
>
> The errors on the second user's site were the same. The user has currently
> deactivated the theme and has an under construction page displayed. I have
> emailed her to ask that she re-activate to get addtional feedback. I imagine
> it will be re-activated at some point today. For reference, the url to that
> site is: http://homesweethomerescue.org/
>
> As I discover additional details I will provide them.
>
> *Best Regards
> Tom Matteson*
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Darren Slatten <darrenslatten at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> This would be a lot easier to diagnose if you could provide information
>> like:
>>
>>    - hosting environment
>>    - php.ini settings
>>    - full text of error messages
>>    - what types of pages/requests generate the errors
>>
>> If the errors are only showing in 2:10,000 installations, then there's a
>> good chance that those 2 users have an unusual server configuration or
>> file/URL structure. Could be caused by something like trying to open/include
>> a file or image that isn't in the typical location, relative to your theme.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Tom Matteson <
>> perspectivevision at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings All Concerned ...
>>>
>>> I have a theme on the Repository--Wordsmith Anvil--which does not use
>>> fopen, fgets or freads functions. It has been downloaded close to 10,000
>>> times and I have just received a comment from the second user who is
>>> receiving errors referencing "failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper
>>> could be found in ...", or "supplied argument is not a valid stream resource
>>> in ..." with this theme. The errors all point to various lines of
>>> wp-includes/functions.php, except one file reference to the theme default
>>> css file, style.css. The first user told me they disabled all plugins. Also,
>>> they performed a fresh WordPress install and did not see the errors using
>>> TwentyTen and a number of other themes. The second user who contacted me
>>> yesterday told me they do not have any plugins installed and when they
>>> activated the Wordsmith Anvil theme, these errors display at the top of the
>>> page.
>>>
>>> Knowing that these functions are not used in this theme; yet the errors
>>> seem to be theme specific, and each user experiencing these errors have
>>> WordPress installations hosted on entirely different servers I am more
>>> uncertain as to why these errors are being displayed. I was hoping someone
>>> on this list may have experienced this with another theme and could shed
>>> some light on why these errors would occur when the theme does not use those
>>> functions. In fact, if these functions had been used in my theme, I am
>>> fairly certain it would not have been approved anyway.
>>>
>>> Otto, Nathan, Chip, Justin, Emil, Cais, etc ... any thoughts or feedback
>>> on this. I would like to address this so that users in the future do not see
>>> these errors.
>>>
>>> *Best Regards
>>> Tom Matteson*
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Darren Slatten
>>
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