http://cweiske.de/tagebuch/php-error-https-wrapper.htm
PHP may tell you the following:
PHP Warning: file_get_contents():
Unable to find the wrapper "https" - did you forget
to enable it when you configured PHP?
This means that PHP is not able to do
secure HTTP requests.
Reason for this is that it has no
SSL library to use.
Unix
Recompile PHP with the --with-openssl flag.
Windows
Edit your php.ini file and add the following line:
extension=php_openssl.dll