file_get_content not working for https in php - php

Question

Has anybody had an issue with display content from a website thats over https? The code was working until all the sites on server got ssl. maybe something to so with the certificate being tlss 1.2? So the site im trying to do this from has this certificate now.
$data = file_get_contents('https://www.ladygaga.com/');
echo $data;

Answer 1

According to php.net
When using SSL, Microsoft IIS will violate the protocol by closing the
connection without sending a close_notify indicator. PHP will report
this as "SSL: Fatal Protocol Error" when you reach the end of the
data. To work around this, the value of error_reporting should be
lowered to a level that does not include warnings. PHP can detect
buggy IIS server software when you open the stream using the https://
wrapper and will suppress the warning. When using fsockopen() to
create an ssl:// socket, the developer is responsible for detecting
and suppressing this warning.
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Answer 2

Based on OpenSSL changes in PHP 5.6, try this:
$arrContextOptions=array(
"ssl"=>array(
"verify_peer"=>false,
"verify_peer_name"=>false,
),
);
$response = file_get_contents("https://www.ladygaga.com/", false, stream_context_create($arrContextOptions));
echo $response;
Another option would be to use curl as such:
function file_get_contents_curl( $url ) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, TRUE );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0 );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE );
$data = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );
return $data;
}
$data = file_get_contents_curl("https://www.ladygaga.com");