outglow/httpbase

Outglow PSR-0 Http request handler

This project is no longer in development.

Http Base

• PSR-0 compliant
• Easy to use
• Stable

Installation

Add outglow/httpbase to your composer.json file, _(*1)

{
    "require" : {
        "outglow/httpbase" : "dev-master"
    }
}

Then run: php composer.phar install (NOTE: An update may be required first), _(*2)

Usage

Receiving requests

Http Base allows you to look at GET and POST requests, and deal with them in an elegant manner. Below is an example of how you set it up:, _(*3)

include('vendor/autoload.php');

use Outglow\Component\HttpBase\HttpBase;

$http = new HttpBase();

We can now use the $http variable to access data sent using either a GET or POST request. Let's say name has been passed into our query string, _(*4)

http://example.com/index.php?name=Harry

We can access name like so:, _(*5)

$name = $http->query->get('name');

We can also do the same if name has been sent using a POST request:, _(*6)

$name = $http->query->post('name');

It even allows us to access all POST or GET variables by not passing anything through:, _(*7)

$getVars = $http->query->get();

The same will work with POST., _(*8)

Making requests

HttpBase makes good use of curl, and callbacks. Below is an example of how we could make a simple GET request:, _(*9)

$response = $http->make->get('http://graph.facebook.com/zuck');

This will return:, _(*10)

{
   "id": "4",
   "name": "Mark Zuckerberg",
   "first_name": "Mark",
   "last_name": "Zuckerberg",
   "link": "https://www.facebook.com/zuck",
   "username": "zuck",
   "gender": "male",
   "locale": "en_US"
}

We can do the same using POST, HEAD, PUT and DELETE requests, and you can also add any params for the request as an array:, _(*11)

$http->make->get($url, array());
$http->make->post($url, array());
$http->make->head($url, array());
$http->make->put($url, array());
$http->make->delete($url, array());

Extended

HttpBase makes good use of callbacks. This involves having an option third param and can be used like so:, _(*12)

$http->make->get('http://graph.facebok.com/zuck', array(), function($data) {
  print_r(json_decode($data), true);
});

In the example above, we have make a request to Facebook, and used print_r to out put the response in the form of an array inside of the function. The $data variable is passed through. This is just our response from the Http request., _(*13)