In a PHP application, cURL is frequently used to make connection to remote server to request some resource. It can be used to transfer data with different protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP etc.While using cURL in PHP, someone may get an error with message similar to "SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain".This may happen when cURL tries to make a SSL connection server and the server returns a server certificate which is self-signed and it's not trusted by the client(in the client CA store). In this case, you may need to follow below steps to resolve this issue....