How to get file_get_contents() to work with HTTPS?

Question

I\'m working on setting up credit card processing and needed to use a workaround for CURL. The following code worked fine when I was using the test server (which wasn\'t cal

Answer 1

I was stuck with non functional https on IIS. Solved with:

file_get_contents('https.. ) wouldn't load.

• download https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html
• install under ..phpN.N/extras/ssl

• edit php.ini with:

  curl.cainfo = "C:\Program Files\PHP\v7.3\extras\ssl\cacert.pem" openssl.cafile="C:\Program Files\PHP\v7.3\extras\ssl\cacert.pem"

finally!