Twitch api with PHP

[Brandon Stewart]

I have this code ( at the bottom of this document )  with php, and I was wondering what I broke? I get the following error when I try and access the page on my Localhost "Warning: file_get_contents() [<a href='function.file-get-contents'>function.file-get-contents</a>]: Unable to find the wrapper &quot;https&quot; - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in C:\wamp\www\twitch.php on line 6" and " Warning: file_get_contents(https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/branndons?client_id=ashdjksahdjksahdjashkd) [<a href='function.file-get-contents'>function.file-get-contents</a>]: failed to open stream: No error in C:\wamp\www\twitch.php on line 6"

Thanks,

<?php

 

$channelName = 'branndons';

 

$clientId = 'ashdjksahjkdhjshdjksa';  //not my real id... js 

$json_array = json_decode(file_get_contents('https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams/'.strtolower($channelName).'?client_id='.$clientId), true);

 

if ($json_array['stream'] != NULL) {

    $channelTitle = $json_array['stream']['channel']['display_name'];

    $streamTitle = $json_array['stream']['channel']['status'];

    $currentGame = $json_array['stream']['channel']['game'];

 

    echo "$channelTitle is online playing $currentGame";

} else {

    echo "$channelName is offline";

}

 

?>

thanks :)

[Anthony Diaz]

Your first error is linked to OpenSSL (or some other SSL manager) not being present to handle HTTPS.  If you have openSSL as a .dll, add this into your php.ini at the bottom after you stash the .ddl into your ./ext/ directory:

; make sure openSSL is loaded and allows for URL's to be used in file_get_contents
extension=php_openssl.dll
allow_url_include = On  

Your second error is likely related to the allow_url_fopen flag in your php.ini.  This will need to be set to on.

If you wish to use cURL as a method for getting the data, I have put together a library to handle all of the calls for you.  It is available here.