Older versions of NetCurl was not "chained" as default. All calls made had to be separately made, instead of X->CALL()→chainedCall().
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The module name is as the name reveals based on the curl library. But it also supports other web-drivers. Besides of this, this module has a small driver for handling basic SOAP-calls. The class itself is called Tornevall_SimpleSoap, and is initialized automatically when using http-calls with "?wsdl" in the URL. If you think that the tiny parameter "?wsdl" is useless, enforcing the SoapClient during the web-call is possible by using CURL_POST_AS::POST_AS_SOAP, instead of POST_AS_JSON or similar. More about this, will come.
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As of v6.0.20, netcurl is splitted up in sections and classes instead of having all source code in one bundled file. The name Tornevall_cURL has been renamed and is from this version deprecated. The new name of all classes is based on MODULE_<name>, meaning Tornevall_cURL is now known as MODULE_CURL. |
Module initialization
The easiest way to get started with the module is with composer:
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Note that if you initialize the module with no constructor arguments, you can set it up more detailed afterwards. The module was, before the chain implementation, built in a way that you in a default state never needed to configure anything, but configuration was available if requirements changed. For example, it was possible to initialize the module and then run more calls after each other, with different settings (i.e. different outgoing ip-interfaces, when there was a need to spread the calls between many hosts). Yes; this is basically a "going under the radar"-function, with spoofability.
Primary calls
To make a call to a website, NetCurl provides some basic methods that does the hard work for you. Depending on what you need to do (GET data, POST data, etc), the methods are called following:
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| doGet | GET | Goes with a simple URL | ||
| doPost | POST | URL, postData, postAs | Makes a POST call with including data, if provided. Included data can be both strings and arrays. If the data is something else than a string, NetCurl tries to translate the data into a proper format. The format is a bit dependent on the postAs-Parameter. Default is CURL_POST_AS::POST_AS_NORMAL. This mode will try to post data in a to-websites-proper-formatting, for example &a=standard&post=format. | Available POST-formats &default=value&post=format JSON SOAP |
| doDelete | DELETE | URL, postData, postAs | Makes a DELETE call, with including data. See POST. | |
| doPut | PUT | URL, postData, postAs | Makes a PUT call, with including data. See POST. |
Quick start: Oneliners
Running with the latest version of NetCurl makes it possible to quick-fire a web-session, with only one row of code.
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stdClass Object
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[ip] => 127.0.0.1
[host] => localhost
[HTTP_HOST] => identifier.tornevall.net
[HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; +TorneLIB-NetCurl-6.0.17 +TorneLIB+cUrl-6.0.17)
[HTTP_ACCEPT] => */*
[HTTP_EXPECT] => 100-continue
)
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Authentications
With NetCurl 6.0.18 and newer versions, initializing the library with authenication values is also possible. However, currently, the best supported authentication is CURLAUTH_BASIC (CURL_AUTH_TYPES::AUTHTYPE_BASIC), with failover on CURLAUTH_ANY. To use authentication at construction level, one can use something like this:
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