PHP: Warning: file_get_contents

Question

I am no coder at all. Started learning html and php and bumped into a problem. There a few similar questions, but with my skill, I am not able to implement solutions.

$url = "https://www.bitstamp.net/api/ticker/";
$fgc = file_get_contents($url);
$json = json_decode($fgc, true);

$price = $json["last"];
$high = $json["high"];
$low = $json["low"];
$date = date("m-d-Y - h:i:sa");
$open = $json["open"];

After launching XAMPP on my machine and uploading php file, I get returned:

Warning: file_get_contents(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution in /opt/lampp/htdocs/crypto_ticker/api.php on line 5

Warning: file_get_contents(https://www.bitstamp.net/api/ticker/): failed to open stream: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution in /opt/lampp/htdocs/crypto_ticker/api.php on line 5

Would someone please let me know what does that mean? Inability to connect to the page? The page loads itself perfectly fine, so must be something missing on my side. And what do I do then? Thank you in advance

Can you connect to Google? Are you on Mac? – deEr. Mar 25 '18 at 20:04 — deEr., Mar 25 '18 at 20:04
What do you mean if I can connect to google? – Saha Nov Mar 27 '18 at 14:43 — Saha Nov, Mar 27 '18 at 14:43
If you can do `file_get_contents(https://www.google.com);`. – deEr. Mar 27 '18 at 15:42 — deEr., Mar 27 '18 at 15:42
It does not work. Gives same error with file_get_contents – Saha Nov Apr 02 '18 at 19:12 — Saha Nov, Apr 02 '18 at 19:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 25 '18 at 19:58

Based on the error (Temporary failure in name resolution), it appears to be an issue with the PHP server accessing the website (bitstamp.net). While your web browser might be able to access it, the PHP service on the XAMPP server may not be able to communicate properly with it.

Try running nslookup www.bitstamp.net to ensure that a response is, in fact, provided. If it does resolve, try ensuring your connection is not incorrectly passing through a proxy and ensure your DNS settings are correct.

Based on other responses (https://stackoverflow.com/a/6361464/9549215), ensuring your ServerName directive in your Apache2 Virtual Host is correctly set MAY solve the issue; I have not tested this.

Best of luck with your problem!

ns lookup gets a response. Now digging into dns settings. thanks — Saha Nov, Mar 26 '18 at 19:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 25 '18 at 19:54

You can see the exact error in your output.

Temporary failure in name resolution

so you can't resolve the hostname "www.bitstamp.net". So you should check if you server has the correct DNS settings and can resolve the domain. You can use nslookup or dig to check it.

PHP: Warning: file_get_contents

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