php-http

For those times when you need a simple set of HTTP request functions, with no extras needed. It is build upon file_get_contents(), keeping the easy URL requests easy.

Install

composer require josephscott/php-http

Alternatively you can grab a copy of https://raw.githubusercontent.com/josephscott/php-http/trunk/src/http.php and require it as needed.

Testing

make test

Usage

require __DIR__ . '/vendoer/autoload.php';

// Object style GET
$http = new HTTP();
$response = $http->get( url: 'https://httpbin.org/get' );
if ( $response['error'] ) {
	// Handle request error
}

// Object style POST
$response = $http->post(
	url: 'https://httpbin.org/post',
	headers: [ 'x-custom' => 'thing' ],
	data: [ 'hello' => 'world' ],
);

// Static style GET
$response = HTTP::get( url: 'https://httpbin.org/get' );

// Static style Post
$response = HTTP::post( url: 'https://httpbin.org/post' );

The response array

The response is always an array, with the following fields:

• error: boolean
• headers: array of name/value pairs for the response headers
• body: string of the response body
• total_time: milliseconds it took for the entire request to complete