Fetch the response body on failure using file_get_contents

Question

The documentation of file_get_contents says

 On failure, file_get_contents() will return FALSE.

I am integrating with a system which returns error messages in the response and sets the status code to "50x"

Is there a way, I can still fetch the response content ?

Answer 1

$curl = curl_init('http://example.net');
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$result = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);

however this may not satisfy your needs, as it requires curl

you may also ignore errors, to still use file_get_contents

$contents = file_get_contents($url, FALSE, stream_context_create(array(
    'http' => array(
        'ignore_errors' => true
     )
));