file_get_contents() how to fix error "Failed to open stream", "No such file"

Question

I'm getting the following error when I try to run my PHP script:

failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\wamp\www\LOF\Data.php on line 3 script:

My code is as follows:

<?php

$json = json_decode(file_get_contents('prod.api.pvp.net/api/lol/euw/v1.1/game/by-summoner/20986461/recent?api_key=*key*'));

print_r($json);

?>

Note: *key* is a replacement for a string in the URL (my API key) and has been hidden for privacy reasons.

I removed the https:// from the URL to get one error to disappear.

Am I doing something wrong here? Maybe the URL?

One often runs into this error, and to quickly troubleshoot it, follow these steps : https://stackoverflow.com/a/36577021/2873507 — Vic Seedoubleyew, Apr 12 '16 at 15:54

Amal Murali · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-13T08:55:21.197

The URL is missing the protocol information. PHP thinks it is a filesystem path and tries to access the file at the specified location. However, the location doesn't actually exist in your filesystem and an error is thrown.

You'll need to add http or https at the beginning of the URL you're trying to get the contents from:

$json = json_decode(file_get_contents('http://...'));

As for the following error:

Unable to find the wrapper - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?

Your Apache installation probably wasn't compiled with SSL support. You could manually try to install OpenSSL and use it, or use cURL. I personally prefer cURL over file_get_contents(). Here's a function you can use:

function curl_get_contents($url)
{
  $ch = curl_init($url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
  $data = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  return $data;
}

Usage:

$url = 'https://...';
$json = json_decode(curl_get_contents($url));

There is now a troubleshooting checklist for this frequent error here : https://stackoverflow.com/a/36577021/2873507 — Vic Seedoubleyew, Apr 12 '16 at 15:54

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 13 '13 at 08:50

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Why don't you use cURL ?

$yourkey="your api key";
$url="https://prod.api.pvp.net/api/lol/euw/v1.1/game/by-summoner/20986461/recent?api_key=$yourkey";
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

$auth = curl_exec($curl);
if($auth)
{
$json = json_decode($auth); 
print_r($json);
}
}

answered Dec 13 '13 at 08:50

Shankar Narayana Damodaran

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I dont know what cUrl is, i ame kinda new to php sry – Life of Madness Dec 13 '13 at 08:54
It's just an extension of PHP , you need to enable it. Most probably it would have been enabled by default. Anyways have a look here.. http://www.tomjepson.co.uk/enabling-curl-in-php-php-ini-wamp-xamp-ubuntu/ – Shankar Narayana Damodaran Dec 13 '13 at 09:02

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 05 '15 at 06:13

You may try using this

<?php
$json = json_decode(file_get_contents('./prod.api.pvp.net/api/lol/euw/v1.1/game/by-summoner/20986461/recent?api_key=*key*'));
print_r($json);
?>

The "./" allows to search url from current directory. You may use

chdir($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]);

to change current working directory to root of your website if path is relative from root directory.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 01 '20 at 08:31

I just solve this by encode params in the url.
URL may be: http://abc/dgdc.php?p1=Hello&p2=some words
we just need to encode the params2.

$params2 = "some words";
$params2 = urlencode($params2);

$url = "http://abc/dgdc.php?p1=djkl&p2=$params2"

$result = file_get_contents($url);

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 26 '17 at 11:39

just to extend Shankars and amals answers with simple unit testing:

/**
 *
 * workaround HTTPS problems with file_get_contents
 *
 * @param $url
 * @return boolean|string
 */
function curl_get_contents($url)
{
    $data = FALSE;
    if (filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL))
    {
        $ch = curl_init($url);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
        $data = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
    }
    return $data;
}
// then in the unit tests:
public function test_curl_get_contents()
{
    $this->assertFalse(curl_get_contents(NULL));
    $this->assertFalse(curl_get_contents('foo'));
    $this->assertTrue(strlen(curl_get_contents('https://www.google.com')) > 0);
}

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 24 '17 at 04:31

We can solve this issue by using Curl....

function my_curl_fun($url) {
 $ch = curl_init();
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
 $data = curl_exec($ch);
 curl_close($ch);
 return $data;
}

$feed = 'http://................'; /* Insert URL here */
$data = my_curl_fun($feed);

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 23 '20 at 16:14

The actual problem of this error has nothing to do with file_get_content, the problem is the requested url if the url is not throwing content of the page and redirecting the request to some where else file_get_content says "Failed to open stream", just before file_get_contents check whether the url is working and not redirecting, here is the code:

function checkRedirect404($url) {

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    $out = curl_exec($ch);

    // line endings is the wonkiest piece of this whole thing
    $out = str_replace("\r", "", $out);

    // only look at the headers
    $headers_end = strpos($out, "\n\n");
    if( $headers_end !== false ) { 
        $out = substr($out, 0, $headers_end);
    }   

    $headers = explode("\n", $out);
    foreach($headers as $header) {
        if( substr($header, 0, 10) == "Location: " ) { 
            $target = substr($header, 10);

            //echo "Redirects: $target<br>";

            return true;
        }   
    }   

    return false;

}

score -1 · Answer 8 · edited Nov 20 '18 at 12:38

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I hope below solution will work for you all as I was having the same problem with my websites...

For : $json = json_decode(file_get_contents('http://...'));

Replace with below query

$Details= unserialize(file_get_contents('http://......'));

edited Nov 20 '18 at 12:38

Michal

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answered Nov 20 '18 at 10:43

Jazeb Pervez Butt

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