overburn/http-request

CURL wrapper for Laravel

1.0.0 2016-05-05 10:01 UTC

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ~4.0

MIT

• Teodor Matis

README

Installation

Update your composer.json file to include this package as a dependency

"overburn/http-request": "~1.0"

Register the HttpRequest service provider by adding it to the providers array in the config/app.php file.

Overburn\HttpRequest\HttpRequestServiceProvider::class

Alias the HttpRequest facade by adding it to the aliases array in the config/app.php file.

'aliases' => [
     'HttpRequest' => Overburn\HttpRequest\Facades\HttpRequest::class
]

Usage

HttpRequest::request

Sends a request , and returns an array of the following form:

[
	"response" => "response body given by the server",
	"info" => "the results of curl_getinfo() on the current request"
]

Example:

$options = [
	"method" => "get",
	"url" => "http://www.example.com"
];

HttpRequest::request($options);

The options is an array

$options = [
	"method" => "get", //required - get, post, put, patch, delete
	"url" => "http://www.example.com", //required
	"params" => ["parameter"=>"value", "another" => "newvalue"], // url parameters for the request (optional)
	"data" => ["postdata[]"=>"avalue", "postdata[]"=>"anothervalue"], // data for post/put/patch/delete requests (optional, not available on "get")
	"files" => ["file" => "./example.pdf"], //an array of files (optional, not available on "get")
]