README

A collection of PHP classes used for making web requests, and parsing information related to the HTTP protocol.

• Overview
• Requirements
• Installing
• Quick Start
• Class Documentation
• Change Log
• TODO
• License

Overview

This library contains classes which can be used to perform the following tasks:

• Make GET/POST requests to remote servers.
• Parse raw HTTP headers, and build raw HTTP headers.
• Parse raw HTTP requests.
• Provides a very small web server written in PHP for testing purposes.

Requirements

• PHP 5.5 or greater.
• cURL PHP extension.
• psr/log.
• headzoo/utilities.

Installing

The library may be installed using either git or Composer, but I strongly recommend using Composer so dependencies will be automatically installed. Add the web-tools dependency to your composer.json using the following code:

"require": {
    "headzoo/web-tools" : "dev-master"
}

Quick Start

<?php
use Headzoo\Web\Tools\WebClient;
use Headzoo\Web\Tools\HttpMethods;

// Make a simple GET request.
$web = new WebClient();
$response = $web->get("http://headzoo.io");

// Make a simple POST request.
$web = new WebClient();
$response = $web->post("http://headzoo.io", ["arg1" => "value1"]);

// The response is an instance of WebResponse, which provides the response information.
echo $response->getCode();
echo $response->getBody();
print_r($response->getHeaders());

// Making a requests with more configuration.
$web = new WebClient(HttpMethods::GET);
$web
    ->addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
    ->setUserAgent("My-Web-Client")
    ->setBasicAuth("headzoo", "password");
$response = $web->request("http://headzoo.io");

Class Documentation

This readme only briefly discussing some of the important classes in the library. See the class source code for more information.

Headzoo\Web\Tools\WebClient

Used to make any kind of HTTP request, including GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE.

Headzoo\Web\Tools\WebResponse

Represents a server response from a HTTP request.

Headzoo\Web\Tools\WebServer

A small, not yet finished testing web server.

Headzoo\Web\Tools\WebRequest

Represents an incoming web request.

Headzoo\Web\Tools\Builders\Headers

Normalizes and builds raw HTTP headers.

Headzoo\Web\Tools\Parsers\Headers

Parses raw HTTP headers into an array of key/value pairs.

Headzoo\Web\Tools\Parsers\Request

Parses a raw HTTP request into body, headers, etc.

Headzoo\Web\Tools\HttpMethods

Class of constants representing the supported request methods.

Headzoo\Web\Tools\Utils

Contains various utility methods used through out the library.

Change Log

v0.2 - 2013-12-31

• Major overhaul.

v0.1 - 2013-12-18

• Released code under MIT license.

TODO

• Add cookie management.
• Add certificate management.

License

This content is released under the MIT License. See the included LICENSE for more information.