Question

I was trying to follow this answer:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/3331372/1063287

So in my php document I had the variables below:

$json = file_get_contents("https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/{$video_id}?v=2&alt=json");
$json_data = json_decode($json);
$video_title = $json_data->{'entry'}->{'title'};
$video_date = $json_data->{'entry'}->{'published'};
$video_duration = $json_data->{'entry'}->{'media:group'}->{'yt$duration'};
$video_views = $json_data->{'entry'}->{'yt$statistics'}->{'viewCount'};
$video_description = $json_data->{'entry'}->{'content'};

but that gave me the error:

Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL
file-access is disabled in the server configuration in
/home/path/to//file.php on line 12

Warning:
file_get_contents(https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/xx-xxxxxxx?v=2&alt=json)
[function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable
wrapper could be found in /home/path/to/file.php on line 12

I have looked at the developers guide here:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_php

and can understand the feed and entry structure here:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_understanding_video_feeds#Understanding_Video_Entries

and have found a few solutions (one involving curl) but they either haven’t worked or I haven’t known if they were the best method to use.

Can anyone please tell me if there is anything wrong in the above code?

Answer 1

This is most likely because you do not have OpenSSL installed on your server. Try installing it, and if it still doesn’t work it’s probably because you have HTTP access disabled in your php.ini (set allow_url_fopen to true)