fopen converting

How would I convert this for php command fopen to a curl command? I don't programming, I just read in the forums that fopen is turned off on dreahost servers. Any help would be great.

	$myfile = @fopen($filename, "w ")or die ("Couldn't open configfile ($filename). Check the path to webroot to be correct. Check permissions for 
directory and files incsite to be set to 777.");
	@fwrite($myfile, $newstring) or die("Problem creating config file. Check permissions for directory incsite and files to be set to 777.");
	fclose($myfile);

and

	$myfile = @fopen( $filename, "w " );
	@fwrite($myfile, $newstring) or die( "Problem creating effect.txt file ($filename). Check permissions for directory files to be set to 777." );
	fclose($myfile);

This is the file I'm tring to fix.

Thanks

-NM

In reply to:

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I just read in the forums that fopen is turned off

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fopen is not turned off. URL access is. As long as you use relative paths within your own domain (not http:// etc), everything will be cool.

Here is a read function that works for me. Odds are some of it is not needed. I am just learning myself and one thing I learned a long time ago about computers whether it is a program, or a programming language, odds are good there are more than one way to accomlish the same thing.
Silk

IO ($filename=$filename, "r");
function IO ($filename, $io) {
	$channel=curl_init($location);
	$file=fopen($filename, $io) or die($php_errormsg);
	curl_setopt($channel, CURLOPT_FILE, $file);
	curl_setopt($channel, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
	curl_setopt($channel, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0);
	curl_exec($channel);
	$data=strip_tags(fread($file, filesize($filename)));
	curl_close($channel);
	fclose($file) or die($php_errormsg);
	print "<div><hr><p class="view">View of created document...</p><h1 class="data">$data</h1></div>";
}