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benjaminpearson on 09/15/09


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PHP REST

 / Published in: PHP
 

A set of drop in rest methods for php. Curl options can be added/removed/modified, but this gets you going.

Various sources were used to build this code snippet - I can't remember all of them. At least one of the sources was http://snipplr.com/view/17733/php-curl-post/

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  1. function construct_query_string($data_array) {
  2. 	$output = array();
  3. 	foreach($data_array as $key => $value) {
  4. 		$output[] = urlencode($key).'='.urlencode($value);
  5. 	}
  6. 	return implode("&",$output);
  7. }
  8.  
  9. function http_get($url) {
  10. 	$c = curl_init();				
  11. 	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  12. 	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true);
  13. 	// SSL verifier should be set to true for higher 
  14. 	// security, but causes issues on some platforms		
  15. 	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
  16. 	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  17. 	$output = curl_exec($c);
  18. 	curl_close($c);			
  19. 	return $output;
  20. }
  21.  
  22. // $data_string should be in the format of something like "name=fred&age=12"
  23. // use the "construct_query_string" method above to build this string from an array
  24. function http_post($url, $data_string) {
  25. 	$c = curl_init();
  26. 	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  27.  	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
  28. 	// SSL verifier should be set to true for higher 
  29. 	// security, but causes issues on some platforms
  30. 	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); 
  31.  	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);		
  32. 	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  33. 	$output = curl_exec($c);
  34. 	curl_close($c);				
  35. 	return $output;
  36. }
  37.  
  38. function http_delete($url) {
  39. 	$c = curl_init();
  40. 	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  41. 	// SSL verifier should be set to true for higher 
  42. 	// security, but causes issues on some platforms
  43. 	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);		
  44. 	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'DELETE');		
  45. 	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  46. 	$output = curl_exec($c);
  47. 	curl_close($c);				
  48. 	return $output;
  49. }

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