PHP file_get_contents does not work on localhost

Question

I am working on my website from localhost (http://172.16.65.1/) a MAMP server on OSX.
I want to load some JSON from Google and some simple tests show me I have a probl

Answer 1

In the second one you're trying to open a file named localhost in the current folder, which doesn't exist and hence throws an error. Use http://localhost instead. And to make that work, you're have to set allow_furl_open.