The file_get_contents() function throws an error, but the verification fails - what to do?

Question

PHP

I make a request

file_get_contents("http://api.sypexgeo.net/json/". $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])

to get geodata about the user, but at the moment something happened and the address http://api.sypexgeo.net/json/became unavailable, which is why I get this error:

"file_get_contents(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: nodename nor servname provided, or not known"

The PHP docs describe that in case of an error, the function returns false, but the construction if (file_get_contents()) {}still gives the same error.
How to solve problems?

Answer 1

filte_get_contents returns false
error can be hidden using error control statement