Github api request with php curl - php

Question

I am trying to get the latest commit from github using the api, but I encounter some errors and not sure what the problem is with the curl requests. The CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE gives me 000.
What does it mean if I got 000 and why is it not getting the contents of the url?
function get_json($url){
$base = "https://api.github.com";
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $base . $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
//curl_setopt($curl, CONNECTTIMEOUT, 1);
$content = curl_exec($curl);
echo $http_status = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($curl);
return $content;
}
echo get_json("users/$user/repos");
function get_latest_repo($user) {
// Get the json from github for the repos
$json = json_decode(get_json("users/$user/repos"),true);
print_r($json);
// Sort the array returend by pushed_at time
function compare_pushed_at($b, $a){
return strnatcmp($a['pushed_at'], $b['pushed_at']);
}
usort($json, 'compare_pushed_at');
//Now just get the latest repo
$json = $json[0];
return $json;
}
function get_commits($repo, $user){
// Get the name of the repo that we'll use in the request url
$repoName = $repo["name"];
return json_decode(get_json("repos/$user/$repoName/commits"),true);
}

Answer 1

I use your code and it will work if you add an user agent on curl
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'YOUR_INVENTED_APP_NAME');