How to base64 encode an image from the facebook api

Question

I am attempting to convert an image url provided by the facebook api into base64 format with cURL.

the api provides a url as such:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-         


        

Answer 1

You just need to add the CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER set to false as the url from facebook is https and not http., or you could just as well request the url without ssl by replacing https with http.

Try the code below

    $url = 'https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/p180x540/72099_736078480783_68792122_n.jpg?oh=f3698c5eed12c1f2503b147d221f39d1&oe=54C5BA4E&__gda__=1418090980_c7af12de6b0dd8abe752f801c1d61e0d';

try {
    $c = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 3);

    /***********************************************/
    // you need the curl ssl_opt_verifypeer
    curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    /***********************************************/

    $result = curl_exec($c);
    curl_close ($c);

    if(false===$result) {
       echo 'fail';
    } else {
       $base64 = '';
       echo $base64;
    }
} 
catch ( \ErrorException $e ) {
    echo 'fail';
}