PHP file_get_contents() returns “failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!”

Question

I am having problems calling a url from PHP code. I need to call a service using a query string from my PHP code. If I type the url into a browser, it works ok, but if I use

Answer 1

I got a similar problem , I parsed the youtube url. The code is;

$json_is = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=".$this->video_url."&max-results=1&alt=json";
$video_info = json_decode ( file_get_contents ( $json_is ), true );     
$video_title = is_array ( $video_info ) ? $video_info ['feed'] ['entry'] [0] ['title'] ['$t'] : '';

Then I realise that $this->video_url include the whitespace. I solved that using trim($this->video_url).

Maybe it will help you . Good Luck