Requests is a replacement for file_get_contents function for external urls and uses curl package for creating requests.
IMPORTANT: You need curl extension installed and enabled in your php.ini configuration file.
- Create
Utilityfolder insrcif doesn't exists. - Copy the
Requests.phpandRequestsInterface.phpfiles fromsrc > Utilityto your Utility folder.
- PHP >= 7.1.x
- cURL extension enabled
- CakePHP >= 3.6.x
Add following statement in require area.
{
// ...
"require": {
"ext-curl": "*",
}
// ...
} // GET
Requests::get(string $url, array $context = []);
// POST
Requests::post(string $url, array $context = []);
// PUT
Requests::put(string $url, array $context = []);
// PATCH
Requests::patch(string $url, array $context = []);
// DELETE
Requests::delete(string $url, array $context = []);- fields: [a=>b, c=>d] or 'a=b&c=d' or null
- user_password: 'user:password' or null
- headers: ['type'=>'value', 'type:value'] or []
- proxy: null
- proxy_type: 'http' or see below
- timeout: 0 (seconds)
- connection_timeout: 0 (seconds)
- ssl_verify: false
Requests has a proxy method included:
$proxyObject = Requests::proxy('https://username:password@hostname:9090/');
echo $proxyObject->scheme;
echo $proxyObject->host;
echo $proxyObject->port;
echo $proxyObject->username;
echo $proxyObject->password;
echo $proxyObject->proxy;You can also use proxy context key in request and proxy_type:
Proxy types:
- http (default)
- socks4
- socks5
Usage:
$result = Requests::post('https://github.com/', [
'proxy' => 'http://username:password@hostname:9090/',
'proxy_type' => 'http'
]);
echo $result->getErrorNumber();
echo $result->getErrorMessage();Load Requests package and make a request. Get response code and full output as result.
namespace App\Controller;
use App\Utility\Requests;
use Cake\Controller\Controller;
class AppController extends Controller
{
// Your code
public function index()
{
$result = \App\Utility\Requests::get('https://github.com/', [
'timeout' => 10,
'connection_timeout' => 10
]);
echo $result->getHttpResponseCode();
echo $result->getOutput();
}
// Your code
}Enjoy ;)
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