PHP - SSL certificate error: unable to get local issuer certificate

Question

I\'m running PHP Version 5.6.3 as part of XAMPP on Windows 7.

When I try to use the Mandrill API, I\'m getting the following error:

Uncaught e

Answer 1

elaborating on the above answers for server deployment.

$hostname = gethostname();
if($hostname=="mydevpc")
{
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
}

should do the trick for development environment without compromising the server when deployed.