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This project provides a composer package with constants for HTTP request methods.

Motivation

Several PHP frameworks and packages come with their own abstractions of HTTP request and response objects. Some of them provide constants for

• HTTP request method names
• HTTP response status codes

so that a developer can refer to these by using named constants instead of magic numbers or magic strings.

Here are a few examples of HTTP request abstractions which provide constants for HTTP request methods:

• Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request
• Zend\Http\Request

Here are a few examples of HTTP response abstractions which provide constants for HTTP response status codes:

• Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response
• Zend\Http\Response

Here are a few examples of interfaces providing constants for HTTP request methods and HTTP response status codes:

• Fig\Http\Message\RequestMethodInterface
• Fig\Http\Message\StatusCodeInterface

However, a developer might use an abstraction that either does not provide any constants at all, or only provides a subset of the constants required for the specific case.

The excellent library teapot/status-code already provides HTTP status codes that are standardized by RFCs, as well as a range of vendor-specific HTTP status codes.

In a similar fashion, this library here aims to provide a collection of interfaces with constants for HTTP request methods that are standardized by RFCs, as well as additional vendor-specific HTTP request methods.

Installation

Run

composer require ergebnis/http-method

Usage

The interface Ergebnis\Http\Method provides constants for all of the HTTP request methods that are standardized by

• RFC 5789
• RFC 7231

namely

• CONNECT
• DELETE
• GET
• HEAD
• OPTIONS
• PATCH
• POST
• PUT
• TRACE

The interface Ergebnis\Http\Method\WebDav provides constants for all of the HTTP request methods that are standardized by

• RFC 3648
• RFC 3744
• RFC 4437
• RFC 4791
• RFC 4918
• RFC 5323
• RFC 5789
• RFC 5842
• RFC 7231

namely

• ACL
• BIND
• CONNECT
• COPY
• DELETE
• GET
• HEAD
• LOCK
• MKCALENDAR
• MKCOL
• MKREDIRECTREF
• MOVE
• OPTIONS
• ORDERPATCH
• PATCH
• POST
• PROPFIND
• PROPPATCH
• PUT
• REBIND
• SEARCH
• TRACE
• UNBIND
• UNLOCK
• UPDATEREDIRECTREF

The interface Ergebnis\Http\Method\Vendor\SquidCache provides constants for a suggest HTTP request method used for purging items from the cache, namely

• PURGE

The interface Ergebnis\Http\Method\Vendor\VarnishCache provides constants for a suggest HTTP request method used for invalidating and purging items from the cache, namely

• BAN
• PURGE

To use these constants, import the interfaces and refer to the constants instead of using magic strings:

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

use Ergebnis\Http\Method;
use Psr\Http\Client;
use Psr\Http\Message;

/** @var Message\RequestFactoryInterface $requestFactory */
$request = $requestFactory->create(
    Method::GET,
    'https://localheinz.com/articles/'
);

/** @var Client\ClientInterface $httpClient */
$httpClient->sendRequest($request);

💡 If you are aware of any other - either standardized or vendor-specific - HTTP methods that are used in the wild, please let me know!

Changelog

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Contributing

The maintainers of this project suggest following the contribution guide.

Code of Conduct

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General Support Policy

The maintainers of this project provide limited support.

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PHP Version Support Policy

This project supports PHP versions with active and security support.

The maintainers of this project add support for a PHP version following its initial release and drop support for a PHP version when it has reached the end of security support.

Security Policy

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License

This project uses the MIT license.

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