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Independent cURL extension simplifier
The network- and cURL class is an independent class library that handles network related things. The cURL library especially, has special features, like parsing data received from the body. For example, calling an URL that returns json strings, you'll get an object back that you could handle immediately, instead of parsing the data yourself.
The cURL class
We are with the cURL class in a quite verbose mode, to get the most out of the web request you are doing. The response are separated in an array as follows
| array key | array content value |
|---|---|
| code | The current HTTP Status code returned from the request (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes) |
| header | The full response header returned from the request as ... Header array array(
'info' => array(),
'full' => 'Full header as string'
);
... where info is an array with keys and values. Example: InfoArray array(
"Server" => "Apache",
"Strict-Transport-Security" => "max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains",
"X-Frame-Options" => "SAMEORIGIN",
"X-Powered-By" => "PHP/5.6.27"
);
|
| body | The full returned body of the request |
| parsed | If the body are recognized as specially formatted (json, xml, etc), the parsed array will transform into an object or an array, depending on the content. Currently, the parser supports simpler modes like XML (SimpleXMLElement) and by this also RSS-feeds (unconfirmed), JSON and serialized data. |
Simple usage
There are four basic function calls, that by default handles http calls automatically. Normally, no further settings are required except for calling an URL. Posting data could be made manually or as an object. It also handles proxies, outgoing ip-addresses and hopefully also the ability to switch to explicit ipv6- or ipv4-mode.
A very basic call to the library may look like this:
require_once("tornevall_network.php");
$CURL = new \TorneLIB\Tornevall_cURL();
$getResponse = $CURL->doGet("https://api.tornevall.net/2.0/endpoints/getEndPoints");
print_r($getResponse['parsed']);