cURLing Also LJ Avatar // VOID-STAR.NET

One of the plugins I use here at β is Also LJ Avatar. Essentially, it allows users to have their LJ/IJ/DJ/etc. userpics when commenting instead of their Gravatar, as per the WordPress default. It’s a cool plugin.

However, it uses file_get_contents(); an insecure include method which is disabled by many hosts (including mine).

Luckily, it’s easy pie to replace this function call with cURL; something which is generally not disallowed. To do so, hit up line 104 in also-lj-avatar.php:

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$userinfo = file_get_contents($url);

And replace it with:

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  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  $userinfo = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);

Easy.