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Cleantalk HTTP Requests

Standalone PHP HTTP Request library

Description

This standalone library allowing you to use different HTTP-requests in easy way. It could be simply merged into your project. Please, see "Usage" to learn more.

Features

• POST, GET HTTP-methods.
• Multiple requests.
• Asynchronous requests.
• Callback functions.
• CURL options support.
• Any combination of the above features.

Usage

Download and include the file into your project by using PSR-0 (autoload) or directly attaching the files with "include" instruction. Use the following code to use the Request:

$request = new Cleantalk\Common\HTTP\Request();
$request_result = $request
    ->setUrl('example.com')
    ->setData(['foo' => 'bar']])
    ->setPresets(['async', 'ssl']))
    ->request();

You can reuse once created object change it URL and callback functions any time:

$another_request_result = $request
    ->setUrl($new_url)
    ->setCallback(
        function ($response_content, $requested_url){
            $processed_response_content = strreplace(
                'Hello',
                'Hey!',
                $response_content
            ); 
            
            return $processed_response_content;
        })
    ->request();

Or use a multiple async requests. This one will send asynchronous requests to example.com and exapme2.com wth custom user-agent and pass the response direct to the output buffer:

$miltiple_request = new Cleantalk\Common\HTTP\Request();
$multiple_request_result = $request
    ->setUrl(['example.com', 'example2.com'])
    ->setData(['foo' => 'bar']])
    ->setPresets(['async']))
    ->setOptions([
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => fase,                  // CURL format is supported
        'user-agent'           => 'My custom User-Agent' // And user-friendly
        ])
    ->request();

Presets

The lib is using presets which allow you to configure its behaviour. Use 'setPresets()' method to set them.

->setPresets([
        'async',
        'get',
        'dont_follow_redirects'
    ])

May use the following presets (you can combine them in any way you want):

• dont_follow_redirects - ignore 300-family response code and don't follow redirects
• get_code - getting only HTTP response code
• async - async requests. Sends request and return 'true' value. Doesn't wait for response.
• get - makes GET-type request instead of default POST-type
• ssl - uses SSL
• cache - allow caching for this request
• retry_with_socket - make another request with socket if cURL failed to retrieve data

Options

If you need to precise tune you could use 'setOptions' method:

->setOptions([
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => fase,                  // CURL format is supported
        'user-agent'           => 'My custom User-Agent' // And user-friendly
    ])

It supports any cURL type options(learn more in cURL documentation) and the following human-friendly:

• timeout - maximum connection duration(int)
• sslverify - verify host (bool)
• sslcertificates - pass your own SSL certificate (string)
• headers - any custom headers (array of strings)
• user-agent - custom user-agent (string)

License

This library is open-sourced software licensed under the GPLv3 license.