Reading a text file from another server, Reading a simple text file from another website Options

[TheHeist]

Hi, I am trying to make it so that when anyone uses my code it automatically loads news from a file on my site. I can do it locally but can't get it to load using url. Any suggestions? And can I name the file: news.data instead of news.txt or will that screw it up?

Thanks,
The Heist

This doesn't work:

CODE

$myFile = "http://www.enochwright.com/news.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'r');
$theNews = fread($fh, filesize($myFile));
fclose($fh);

[TheHeist]

CODE

Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /homepages/43/d318702296/htdocs/ew/cms/index.php on line 7

Warning: fopen(http://www.enochwright.com/cms/news.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /homepages/43/d318702296/htdocs/ew/cms/index.php on line 7

Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for http://www.enochwright.com/cms/news.txt in /homepages/43/d318702296/htdocs/ew/cms/index.php on line 8

Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /homepages/43/d318702296/htdocs/ew/cms/index.php on line 8

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /homepages/43/d318702296/htdocs/ew/cms/index.php on line 9