Curl vs fopen

[joyr1der05]

does anyone have a view on which is better, curl or fopen? And how can I enable one or the other on my red fox hosted joomla site?

[RFH Reseller: nick]

I don't think there is really much in it <waiting for someone to prove me wrong>. CURL, from what I gather may be slightly better suited if you need to deal with authentication on the remote server? I tend to use fopen purely because it was the first thing I hit in the php manual.

Btw. how do you mean 'enable' on your joomla site? They should both be enabled as part of the PHP environment.

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

PHP would need to be enabled in the Helm WebHosting Control Panel on the domain.

Helm > Domains > domain.com > Website Settings > PHP