passioncoder/simplecurl

A very simple and minimalistic cURL wrapper for Laravel 4

SimpleCurl for Laravel 4

A very simple and minimalistic cURL wrapper for Laravel 4., _(*1)

Why?

There are a lot of great php HTTP clients out there in the wild. But sometimes you don't want/need the overhead of a full-featured client which forces you to write 15 lines of code to load a RSS feed or retrive data from an REST API., _(*2)

$response = Curl::get('http://example.com/data.json');

SimpleCurl is the easy one-liner for this purpose. It's not intended to become the next guzzle, nor will it replace the Zend Http Client. ;), _(*3)

Install

Composer:, _(*4)

Add passioncoder/simplecurl to the require section of your composer.json:, _(*5)

"require": {
    "passioncoder/simplecurl": "dev-master"
}

Laravel:, _(*6)

Add the service provider to your app/config/app.php:, _(*7)

'providers' => array(

    'Passioncoder\SimpleCurl\ServiceProvider',
),

Add the alias to your app/config/app.php (optional):, _(*8)

'aliases' => array(

    'Curl'            => 'Passioncoder\SimpleCurl\Facade',
),

Usage

Synopsis:, _(*9)

$response = Curl::get($url, [array $params, [array $options]]);
$response = Curl::post($url, [array $params, [array $options]]);

• $url: A valid url
• $params: The get/post parameters as key/value pairs
• $options: cURL options as as key/value pairs

Example:, _(*10)

try {

    $response = Curl::get('http://example.com/data.json', ['foo' => 'bar'], [CURLOPT_HEADER => false]);

} catch (Passioncoder\SimpleCurl\Exception $e) {

    print $e->getMessage();
}

var_dump($response->header);
var_dump($response->body);

if ($response->header->http_code == 200) {

    print 'yeah!';
}

License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license., _(*11)