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:

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Answer 1

If none of the solutions above are working for you try updating your XAMPP installation to a newer version.

I was running XAMPP with php 5.5.11, the same exact code didn't work, I upgraded to XAMPP with php 5.6.28 and the solutions above worked.

Additionally only updating PHP didn't work either seems like a combination of apache and php settings on that version of XAMPP.

Hope it helps someone.