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Abollinger\Http\Client is a lightweight, static PHP HTTP client for making GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE requests. It simplifies HTTP interactions with support for custom headers, data payloads, and response parsing (including headers and body).

Features

• Static Methods: Easy-to-use static methods for common HTTP verbs (get, post, put, delete).
• Header Support: Custom headers for requests and parsed response headers.
• JSON Parsing: Automatic JSON decoding for response bodies, with fallback to raw output.
• Error Handling: Clear error messages and HTTP status code validation.
• cURL-Based: Uses PHP’s cURL for reliable and flexible HTTP communication.

Requirements

• PHP 7.4 or higher
• cURL extension enabled
• Composer autoloading

Installation

Include the class via Composer autoloading. Install the Abollinger\Http package using composer. Run the following command:

composer require abollinger/http

Then, load the class in your code:

require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Abollinger\Http\Client;

Usage

Making a GET Request

$response = Client::get([
    'url' => 'https://api.example.com/data',
    'headers' => ['Authorization' => 'Bearer token123']
]);

Making a POST Request

$response = Client::post([
    'url' => 'https://api.example.com/data',
    'data' => ['key' => 'value'],
    'headers' => ['Content-Type' => 'application/json']
]);

Retrieving Headers Only

$headers = Client::getHeaders([
    'url' => 'https://api.example.com/data'
]);

You can use this method to obtain normalized headers (example: "content type" becomes "Content-Type"):

$headers = Client::getNormalizedHeaders([
    'url' => 'https://api.example.com/data'
]);

Handling the Response

The response is always an associative array with the following structure:

[
    'status' => 200, // HTTP status code
    'headers' => ['Content-Type' => 'application/json', ...], // Parsed headers
    'body' => ['data' => '...'] // Parsed body (or ['raw' => '...'] if not JSON)
]

Error Handling

If the request fails, the response will include an error key:

if (isset($response['error'])) {
    echo "Error: " . $response['error'];
}

API Reference

Static Methods

get(array $params = []): array

Performs a GET request. Returns the parsed response body.

getHeaders(array $params = []): array

Performs a GET request. Returns the parsed response headers.

getNormalizedHeaders(array $params = []): array

Performs a GET request. Normalize and returns the parsed response headers.

post(array $params = []): array

Performs a POST request. Returns the parsed response body.

put(array $params = []): array

Performs a PUT request. Returns the parsed response body.

delete(array $params = []): array

Performs a DELETE request. Returns the parsed response body.

Parameters

All methods accept an associative array of parameters:

Example Workflow

use Abollinger\Http\Client;

// GET request
$data = Client::get(['url' => 'https://api.example.com/users']);

// POST request with custom headers
$result = Client::post([
    'url' => 'https://api.example.com/users',
    'data' => ['name' => 'John Doe'],
    'headers' => ['Authorization' => 'Bearer token123']
]);

License

This library is licensed under the MIT License. For full license details, see the LICENSE file distributed with this source code.

Author

Antoine Bollinger Email: abollinger@partez.net

For contributions, issues, or feedback, feel free to reach out or open an issue on the relevant repository.