lawngnome/phpdbg-fake-request

A CLI script that will fake a HTTP request before delegating control to another PHP script

phpdbg request faker

This package provides an executable script that can be used with phpdbg to fake a web request., _(*1)

, _(*2)

Installation

composer require lawngnome/phpdbg-fake-request

Usage

To fake a GET request to / with public/index.php as the entry point:, _(*3)

./vendor/bin/fake-request GET / public/index.php

This will launch phpdbg. The script can then be run with phpdbg's run command:, _(*4)

run

Populating $_GET and $_POST

The -g and -p options allow for GET and POST variables to be sent:, _(*5)

./vendor/bin/fake-request GET / public/index.php -g 'page=2'
./vendor/bin/fake-request POST / public/index.php -p 'page=2'

Values do not need to be URL encoded., _(*6)

Headers

Similarly, the -H option allows for HTTP headers to be sent:, _(*7)

./vendor/bin/fake-request GET / public/index.php -H 'X-Foo: bar'

Cookies

The -c option allows cookies to be sent:, _(*8)

./vendor/bin/fake-request GET / public/index.php -c 'PHPSESSID=foo'

Known issues

Arbitrary POST data is unsupported

It is impossible at present to set the php://input stream up at runtime, so non-form POST data is not supported., _(*9)

Feedback

Please send issues and pull requests through GitHub., _(*10)

Acknowledgements

This builds on top of the excellent documentation on the phpdbg site and Symfony's equally excellent console component., _(*11)

You can also e-mail me at aharvey@php.net, if you feel so inclined., _(*12)