Question

I am using php and google’s new CSE in my website . The URL for request is like
https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=INSERT-YOUR-KEY&cx=017576662512468239146:omuauf_lfve&q=lectures

The connection is https and file_get_content() is getting failed. How can i get it working?
Since i need to host the site on some external web-hosting servers, I am in need of solution which don’t alter php configuration file or work with default options found on most of web-hosting sites.

Answer 1

You can use curl:

## HTTPS url that you are targeting.
$url = "https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=INSERT-YOUR-KEY&cx=017576662512468239146:omuauf_lfve&q=lectures";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Opera/9.23 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);

## Below two option will enable the HTTPS option.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,  2);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
echo $result;