trying to turn on allow_url_fopen by putting php.ini in wordpress root does not work

Question

ok so, Im building a fancy pants wordpress theme and part of the theme has php getting image widths and using those numbers to resize page elements. It works fine on my loca

Answer 1

allow_url_fopen = on

Add to php.ini or php5.ini

Works with Joomla 3.1 hope that helps.