File_get_contents(): SSL error

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PHPMailer Suddenly Stopped working

We upgraded OpenSSL on our servers a few days ago. This may have resulted in SSL for SMTP breaking. I’m going to do some investigation into this. The provided SMTPOptions are a good workaround until then. Please note that you should AVOID such SMTPOptions as much as possible, because fixing SSL issues by disabling most SSL security features is NOT a good solution.

This is the temporary/permanent solution:

Cannot Alter PHP Config

You try to get external contents with HTTPS URL via that function. Maybe CA bundle in the hosting wasn’t setup correctly. You can get around this problem by writing a custom function that uses curl, as in: function file_get_contents_curl( $url ) { $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, TRUE ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0 ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TR…