My hosting company has certain functions disabled as follows:

PHP Disabled Functions (Linux): All Posix functions disabled. Also, the following functions are disabled: fpassthru, file, mail, exec, system, passthru, popen, crack_check, crack_closedict,
crack_getlastmessage, crack_opendict, fsockopen, psockopen, opendir, readdir, closedir, phpinfo. They will not enable these functions.

Eventhough this is the case, they told me I could use CURL(Client URL Library) to get around this and retrieve news feeds.

Here's the link to PHP's site on this code:
PHP.net – CURL Reference
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php

I'm a newb to php and xoops, and have no idea on how to implement this into the code to allow xhld to work properly.

I was wondering if you have run across this before, or if you know how to implement this into the xhld module? It would seem that more users have or will run into this same problem. This would be a great addition to the module to allow us unfortunate users the opportunity to use this excellent module.

Thanks so much in advance!!