tagadvance / stooge

1.1.0 2026-09-05 21:54 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.4
• ext-curl: *
• ext-spl: *

Requires (Dev)

• friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer: ^3.95
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.2
• phpunit/phpunit: ^13.3

MIT

• Tag

• curl
• http
• client
• url
• WebDAV
• query
• https
• session
• request
• cookie

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-09-05 22:06 UTC

README

Stooge

A PHP library for simplifying the process of making HTTP requests via cURL.

Stooge performs HTTP requests by using CurlRequest as a fluent builder for PHP's Client URL Library.

• __invoke() has been overridden to call execute()
• there are convenience methods for get, post, and put operations
• autoCookieJar() is useful if sessions are necessary

Download / Install

The easiest way to install Stooge is via Composer:

composer require "tagadvance/stooge:^1.0"

{
    "require": {
        "tagadvance/stooge": "^1.0"
    }
}

Example

<?php

use tagadvance\stooge\CurlRequest;

require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

$break = str_pad ( $input = '', $pad_length = 5, PHP_EOL );

$url = 'http://intentionallyblankpage.com';
// $url = 'http://intentionallyblankpage.com/redirect.php';
// $url = 'http://intentionallyblankpage.com/test.html';

$request = new CurlRequest ();
$response = $request
		->autoDetectUserAgent ()
		->autoCookieJar()
		->setAutoreferer ()
		->setReturntransfer ()
		->setConnecttimeout ( 30 )
		->setTimeout ( 30 )
		->setFollowlocation ()
		->setMaxredirs ( 3 )
		->setFreshConnect ()
		->setForbidReuse ()
		->get ( $url );
print $response . $break;

$url = 'http://intentionallyblankpage.com/test.php';
$response = $request->post ( $url, $fields = [ ] );
print $response . $break;

$response = $request->put ( $url, $fields = [ ] );
print $response . PHP_EOL;

What's with the name?

cURL -> Curly Howard -> The Three Stooges -> Stooge

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