PHP RESTful Client Library

Synopsis

This is an easy to use client for RESTful web services.

Setup

Installation with Composer.

Clone the repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/innesian/PhpRestClient.git

Install Composer in your project using cURL (command below) or download the composer.phar directly.

$ curl -sS http://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Let Composer install the project dependencies:

$ php composer.phar install

Once installed, include the autoloader in your script.

<?php
include_once 'vendor/autoload.php'; // Path to autoload.php file.
$rest = new \PhpRestClient\PhpRestClient('http://base.url/to/api/');

(or) add PhpRestClient as a dependency to your REST project using Composer.

Create a composer.json file in your project and add adam-innes/php-rest-client as a required dependency.

{
    "require": {
        "adam-innes/php-rest-client": "1.0.*"
    }
}

Usage

Standard Requests

$rest = new \PhpRestClient\PhpRestClient('http://base.url/to/api');

/** Get Example **/
# Set custom headers.
$headers = array(
    'CURLOPT_VERBOSE' => true,
);
# The get function will take a query string or array of parameters.
$response = $rest->get('account/information', 'variable=1&variable=2', $headers);

/** Put Example **/
$params['variable_1'] = 'value_1';
$params['variable_2'] = 'value_2';
$response = $rest->put('user/information', $params);

/** Post Example **/
$params['variable_1'] = 'value_1';
$params['variable_2'] = 'value_2';
$response = $rest->post('user/information', $params);

/** Delete Example **/
$response = $rest->delete('delete/user/5');

Basic and Digest Authentication

The setAuthentication() function will set Basic or Digest authenication headers for the remainder of the session unless explicitly unset.

Authentication uses Basic by default. The unsetAuthentication() function will clear out the authentication headers.

$rest = new \PhpRestClient\PhpRestClient('http://base.url/to/api');
# Set Basic Authentication Headers.
$rest->setAuthentication('myUsername', 'myPassword', CURLAUTH_DIGEST);
$rest->get('account/information');
# Unset the Authentication headers.
$rest->unsetAuthentication();