API Helix request with PHP curl - channel infos

[iTzMeRafa]

Hey,
how do I get user informations by name with helix in PHP?
I am new to curl and cant make this work.

This is what I have, and the result is boolean: false:

In the end I try to get channel subscriber images with url by channel name.
Maybe you can help me with that too, but this is not necessary.

Thanks

[3ventic]

curl_exec returning FALSE indicates a failure in the request. Check curl_error.

[iTzMeRafa]

The error is:

string 'SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate' (length=63)

I am working on localhost with no SSL

EDIT: I found the issue myself, this fixed it:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

Thanks for pointing curl_error out.

[3ventic]

That’s fine-ish for testing, but for any production system you should fix the certificate verification instead of disabling it as it’s a critical part of SSL/TLS.

[iTzMeRafa]

Already downloaded the certificate cacert.pem and set the path in php.ini.
Now I can work without disabling the certificate verification.

[BarryCarlyon]

@iTzMeRafa

The error is:

string ‘SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate’ (length=63)

Sounds like your install is missing the standard cURL certificates bundle. Or you didn’t install anything beyond “os default”

What operating system are you running off?