PHP Can't get https content - php

Question

I was working on using an api in php.
This is what I got for so far:
$keybotlink = file_get_contents('https://steamgaug.es/api/v2');
echo $keybotlink;
(Not much :D), Anyways, if I try to run this, The page is empty.
If I try to do
$w = stream_get_wrappers();
echo 'openssl: ', extension_loaded ('openssl') ? 'yes':'no', "\n";
echo 'http wrapper: ', in_array('http', $w) ? 'yes':'no', "\n";
echo 'https wrapper: ', in_array('https', $w) ? 'yes':'no', "\n";
echo 'wrappers: ', var_dump($w);
This is the output:
openssl: yes
http wrapper: yes
https wrapper: yes
wrappers: array(22)
{ [0]=> string(13) "compress.zlib"
[1]=> string(4) "dict"
[2]=> string(3) "ftp"
[3]=> string(4) "ftps"
[4]=> string(6) "gopher"
[5]=> string(4) "http"
[6]=> string(5) "https"
[7]=> string(4) "imap"
[8]=> string(5) "imaps"
[9]=> string(4) "pop3"
[10]=> string(5) "pop3s"
[11]=> string(4) "rtsp"
[12]=> string(4) "smtp"
[13]=> string(5) "smtps"
[14]=> string(6) "telnet"
[15]=> string(4) "tftp"
[16]=> string(3) "php"
[17]=> string(4) "file"
[18]=> string(4) "glob"
[19]=> string(4) "data"
[20]=> string(3) "zip"
[21]=> string(4) "phar"
}
Thanks, Me

Answer 1

To allow https wrapper php_openssl extension mustbe enabled and allow_url_fopen must be set to on.
Add below lines in php.ini file if it does not exist:
extension=php_openssl.dll
allow_url_fopen = On
You can also use curl for this:
function getData($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if($result === false)
{
echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
}
else
{
echo 'Operation completed without any errors';
}
curl_close($ch);
return $result;
}
print_r( json_decode( getData('https://steamgaug.es/api/v2') ) );

Answer 2

For download content from HTTPS sites use folowing code:
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://steamgaug.es/api/v2");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
// if you want to connet to https page you can skip SSL verification by setting CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST to 0
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0 );
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0 );
// if you want to fetch result to a variable use CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// grab URL and pass it to the $output variable
$output = curl_exec($ch);
// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
echo $output;
CURL is very good and full of options tool to working with HTTP(S) requests.