Can't create AFCSAccount object in php

[Lance988]

I'm getting an uncaught exception with the code below and don't know why (account98 is my dev account). It's probably a silly error on my part, but I don't see it. Please help.

<?php

     require_once("afcs.php");

     $am = new AFCSAccount("https://connectnow.acrobat.com/account98");

?>

Here is the stack trace:

<b>Fatal error</b>:  Uncaught exception 'AFCSError' in /home/babblema/public_html/afcs.php:504
Stack trace:
#0 /home/babblema/public_html/afcs.php(387): AFCS-&gt;http_get('https://connect...', Array)
#1 /home/babblema/public_html/afcs.php(224): AFCSAccount-&gt;do_initialize()
#2 /home/babblema/public_html/service.php(16): AFCSAccount-&gt;__construct('https://connect...')
#3 {main}
  thrown in <b>/home/babblema/public_html/afcs.php</b> on line <b>504</b><br />

[Raff_]

Without more information I am guessing you don't have SSL enabled in your php.ini.

Check your PHP error logs (Apache error logs if you are using Apache), you should see the root cause.

If you see an error like this, that's probably the cause:

Warning: fopen( http://connectnow.acrobat.com/xxxx?mode=xml&accountonly=true&) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in /home/a9897012/public_html/cocomo.php on line 441

To enable SSL I think you need to have the "php_openssl.*" extension uncommented in your php.ini (and of course you need to have the module available)

[Lance988]

Is SSL absolutely necessary? I'm using siteground.com to host my site and it's an extra charge to enable SSL. I guess I could use Apache, but that is also a bit of work to set up. 

[Raff_]

I don't mean your website needs to use SSL, I mean PHP needs to be configured to be able to access services on HTTPS, that requires the SSL module to be enabled.

[Lance988]

Sorry I'm new to php and web programming, but I don't believe that my problem is that openssl is disabled. A phpinfo() call shows this:

OpenSSL support	enabled
OpenSSL Version	OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01 Jul 2008

Also when I go to my account and view current the versions of all the software installed on the server I see this:

OpenSSL: 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5

I'm not sure if there is anything else I need to do (like copy some library file into my public folder?). I only have 3 files in my public folder, my service.php which is where the error is, afcs.php, and the errolog file which just shows the error in my original post over and over. Any ideas? Or is there more information that I could get you that would be helpful? I'm not sure where to begin in terms of debugging this error.

[mmcgeehan]

STOP SENDING THINGS TO MMCGEEHAN, I'M TIRED OF IT

[Lance988]

Don't know what you are talking about MMCGEEHAN