Getting file_get_contents error - simple_html_dom.php XAMPP - php

Question

The problem I am experiencing is below:
Warning: file_get_contents(): Unable to find the wrapper "https" -
did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in
<b>C:\xampp\htdocs\test_crawl\simple_html_dom.php</b> on line <b>75</b><br
/>
<br />
<b>Warning</b>: file_get_contents(https://www.yahoo.com): failed to open
stream: Invalid argument in
<b>C:\xampp\htdocs\test_crawl\simple_html_dom.php</b> on line <b>75</b><br
/>
I did some research and I found a few posts that said uncommenting extension=php_openssl.dll in php.ini works but when I did and restarted my server it did not.The script I am used is below:
$url = 'https://yahoo.com'
function CrawlMe($url)
{
$html = file_get_html($url);
return json_encode($html);
}
Not sure why it's not working would appreciate your help..
Below is the function that's erroring out at $contents = file_get_contents($url, $use_include_path, $context, $offset);
function file_get_html($url, $use_include_path = false, $context=null,
$offset = -1, $maxLen=-1, $lowercase = true, $forceTagsClosed=true,
$target_charset = DEFAULT_TARGET_CHARSET, $stripRN=true,
$defaultBRText=DEFAULT_BR_TEXT, $defaultSpanText=DEFAULT_SPAN_TEXT)
{
// We DO force the tags to be terminated.
$dom = new simple_html_dom(null, $lowercase, $forceTagsClosed,
$target_charset, $stripRN, $defaultBRText, $defaultSpanText);
// For sourceforge users: uncomment the next line and comment the
// retreive_url_contents line 2 lines down if it is not already done.
$contents = file_get_contents($url, $use_include_path, $context, $offset);
// Paperg - use our own mechanism for getting the contents as we want to
control the timeout.
//$contents = retrieve_url_contents($url);
if (empty($contents) || strlen($contents) > MAX_FILE_SIZE)
{
return false;
}
// The second parameter can force the selectors to all be lowercase.
$dom->load($contents, $lowercase, $stripRN);
return $dom;
}

Answer 1

Whats on line 75 of simple_html_dom.php? From what you have posted all I can say is
$url = 'https://yahoo.com'
is missing a semi colon, it should be:
$url = 'https://yahoo.com';
--Edit after seeing the code...
You are setting the offset to -1. which means start reading from the end of the file. As per the documentation
Seeking (offset) is not supported with remote files. Attempting to
seek on non-local files may work with small offsets, but this is
unpredictable because it works on the buffered stream.
Your maxlength is set to minus 1. As per the documaentation:
An E_WARNING level error is generated if filename cannot be found,
maxlength is less than zero, or if seeking to the specified offset in
the stream fails.
You don't need to specify all those parameters, this will work fine:
$file = file_get_contents('https://www.yahoo.com');