Secured socket in PHP

[priyank9]

Hi, I have some question about SSL and socket functions in PHP. I am new in web development and SSL networking. Actually I was trying to make a PHP MSN client. I am trying to connect with hotmail server to get ticket to login into MSN using socket.
I use function like [code]$msnSock = fsockopen("ssl://loginnet.passport.com",443);[/code]. But this function gives me error “no SSL support in this build” even when I am trying to use CURL it gives me error at “Call to undefined function: curl_init()”. What I feel is may be because I don’t have SSL certificate for my server. But I am not sure. Do I need to get SSL certificate? Can I get some help to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance.