README

UrlFetcher is a PHP class providing methods to make http requests

Basic usage

$fetcher = new UrlFetcher("http://www.example.com/content.dat");

if(!$fetcher->found()){
  echo $fetcher->getErrorMessage();
  exit(1);
}

$content = $fetcher->getContent();

$status_code = $fetcher->getStatusCode(); // e.g 200
$content_type = $fetcher->getContentType(); // e.g. "application/pdf"
$request_headers = $fetcher->getRequestHeaders();
$response_headers = $fetcher->getResponseHeaders();

HTTP basic authentication or non-standard port can be specified within the URL.

$fetcher = new UrlFetcher("https://username:password@www.example.com:444/private/content.dat");
if($fetcher->found()){
  echo $fetcher->getContent();
}else{
  echo $fetcher->getErrorMessage();
}

Make a POST requests

$fetcher = new UrlFetcher("https://www.example.com/api/en/articles/create_new/");
if($fetcher->post(["title" => "Sample article", "body" => "Lorem Ipsum..."])){
  echo $fetcher->getContent();
}

Installation

Use the Composer to install the UrlFetcher.

cd path/to/your/project/
composer require atk14/url-fetcher

Licence

UrlFetcher is free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license