Awesom Amazon component loads blank page when menu clicked

[jasey]

Please help! I've set everything up smoothly but when clicking on the new component menu item, the component page loads only the template header and nothing below it - the page is blank!

I had a similar issue on SimpleBoard and ended up having to update a line of code that mentioned version for 4.5.2. Could this be similar?

Also, I've heard rumblings about Awesome being incompatible with PHPAdsNew - can this be true? What do I do now? Mauricio, this is your baby .. are you out there?

PLEASE help.

Thanks!

[urbangal]

I installed this component this morning. I am also having the same problem; nothing on the frontend. Has this question been answered? I have not found the solution on these forums yet.

Thanks for any help.

[CodeXPoet]

Had the same problem but now it's fixed.
Your server configuration (php.ini) doesn't allow url fopen (allow_url_fopen is FALSE). That's how it gets information from amazon.

Ask your hosting provider to activate this feature.

If he doesn't, look if CURL php module is installed. I have made a workaround using the CURL library instead of url fopen and it works fine right now. You can see it at http://www.bodytweaking.com in action.

I may post this piece of code later if its still needed.

[gmar]

Hi CodeXPoet,
would you please so kind and post your code to force awesom using curl instead of fopen?
thanks!

[CodeXPoet]

Sorry it took so long, wasn't online for some time. Anyway, the CURL code to fix awesom problem is this. I've copied a piece from parser.class.php beginnign from line 105 or so, so you can locate where it is:

PHP Code:

/**
    * This function handles the parsing of a feed returned by AWS.
    *
    * @param string $url the URL of the feed that has to be parsed.
    * @param string $type the type of request you are making to AWS. This can
    * be either "heavy" or "lite".
    *
    * @return BlendedSearch|ProductInfo an object containing the information
    * returned by AWS.
    *
    * @access private
    */
    function parse($url, $type = "lite") {
        global $isHeavy, $allowsettimelimit;

        if($allowsettimelimit) set_time_limit(60);

        if($type == "lite")
            $isHeavy = false;
        else
            $isHeavy = true;

        $wait = 1;
        // Downloads response from Amazon
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 0; // set to zero for no timeout
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $file_contents;

        $tmpDir = getAmazoopConfig('temporary_directory');

        // Creates new temporary filename
        $tempName = tempnam($tmpDir, "tmp");
        // Opens (creates) new tepmorary file for writing
        $amazonInfo = fopen($tempName, "w"); 


This should solve the fopen amazon problem. Works perfectly for me.

[martinincanada]

Hello,

any idea how I can implement amazon.ca?

Thanks

Martin

[ejorczyk]

Do you PhpAdsNew to display banner ads? I found it's not compatible with Awesom. You need to remove the PhpAdsNew module from the page on which you display Awesom.