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

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?

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);
}
}

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);
}

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.

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;

}

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);

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://......'));

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);