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Hi Guys,

I am new to C5. I am trying to install theme from Marketplace within Dashboard so I would have to login, but when I do this is the error I got.

Error: curl must be enabled to proceed.

Could someone tell me what this means?
ktranfx
 
chunksmurray replied on at Permalink Reply
chunksmurray
Hi there,

I ran into this myself. You will need to enable curl on your server for this to work. If you have web hosting, contact your host and ask if they can enable it.

If you are hosting yourself, you need to uncomment the line 'extension=php_curl.dll' in your php.ini file. For more info just google enabling curl or checkouthttp://www.php.net/docs.php, heaps of info there.
ktranfx replied on at Permalink Reply
ktranfx
chunksmurray,

Thanks for your help. You hit the nail right on the head.
chaosdivine replied on at Permalink Reply
chaosdivine
Thanks ChucksMurray for posting this, I too had this problem. Enabling this in the php.ini in my localhost WAMP settings lets me log in but I am unable to download themes...I figure this is most likey due to me being on a localhost setup for testing and not a live server however (similar to Picnik image editing problems locally).
macromax replied on at Permalink Reply
Like chaos, I'm developing locally first using XAMPP, and even though I enabled curl, it's still not allowing me to download themes. I tried manually downloading and installing the themes, but the dashboard doesn't recognize it. How do I manually install a theme? Thanks in advance.
macromax replied on at Permalink Reply
I just manually added the description in the 'pagethemes' table of the database in addition to copying the files to the themes folder. Seems to be working fine.