m6web / restconnection
PHP class used to make requests to REST APIs easily.
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README
This repo is published "as is" from the 1.0.0
tarball of the deleted original at https://github.com/oziks/RESTConnection
You can use this package by requiring m6web/restconnection
, any of your dependencies should then use it as we're replacing the original.
Original README content below
RESTConnection is a PHP class used to make requests to REST APIs easily
About
The process is as follow :
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instantiate a Client object, passing it the general parameters to connect to the REST api of your choice. ie : base url to the service, credentials, headers (to specify sent and accepted content types for example)
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Use the method "request()" to send a request to this api, using parameters : url path, (optional) data to send, and method (verb, ie : get, post, put...) to use.
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Get the resulting http status code, body, header, error message
Altough RESTConnection supports most used http verbs (get, post, put, delete, patch), you might be in a situation where only get/post are supported (your firewall might block other verbs). In that case, you can set the compatibilityMode to true. Then, every delete, put, patch verb will be passed as a POST and a special header X-HTTP-Method-Override will be added. On another hand, you also might want to force this for one specific request. Think of google translate, that usually takes the word to translate as a GET. If you want to transalte a whole paragraph you'll have to pass it as a POST and force the X-HTTP-Method-Override to GET. You can do this easily, by just adding a overriding verb to the request parameters list.
Examples
Get twitter public tweets
// Initialize the header of our future requests, specifying the format we want to use in request and response (json) $requestHeader = array('Accept: application/json', 'Content-Type: application/json'); // Create the Client object, for now, no credential needed as we get only public tweets $testAPI = new RESTConnection\Client('https://api.twitter.com/1/', $requestHeader); // Issue a GET request on 'https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/public_timeline.json' if($testAPI->request('statuses/public_timeline.json')) { // Display the tweets var_dump(json_decode($testAPI->getResponseBody(), true)); } else { // Something went wrong var_dump($testAPI->getLastError()); }
Post a message to campfire, highlight it and then change the room topic
// Initialize the header of our future requests, specifying the format we want to use in request and response (json) $requestHeader = array('Accept: application/json', 'Content-Type: application/json'); // Create the Client object, this time, credential are specified $testAPI = new RESTConnection\Client('https://your.campfirenow.com/', $requestHeader, 'your_token_here', 'X'); // Issue a POST request on 'https://your.campfirenow.com/room/your_room_id/speak.json' if($testAPI->request('room/your_room_id/speak.json', json_encode(array('message' => array('body' => "Hello"))), RESTConnection\Client::POST))) { // lastStatusCode should be 201 var_dump($testAPI->getLastStatusCode()); // Response body contains the message id $result = (json_decode($testAPI->getResponseBody(), true)); // star the message $messageid = $result['message']['id']; $testAPI->request(sprintf('messages/%s/star.json', $messageid), array(), RESTConnection\Client::POST); // unstar it // $testAPI->request(sprintf('messages/%s/star.json', $messageid), array(), RESTConnection\Client::DELETE); } else { // Something went wrong var_dump($testAPI->getLastError()); } // Issue a PUT request on 'https://your.campfirenow.com/room/your_room_id.json' $testAPI->request('room/your_room_id.json', json_encode(array('room' => array('topic' => "this room is not about cats"))), RESTConnection\Client::PUT);
Credits
This code is partially based on this article : http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/making-restful-requests-in-php/. Thanks to its author.