The HttpRequest in HttpRequest.php will simplify cURL calls. This can be used to retrieve information from a server, or to communicate with backend APIs.

You are able to perform GET or POST requests. To do so, just create the HttpRequest object with the URL

$request = new HttpRequest("https://yourwebsite.com/api/person/add");

Next, set the parameters along with the request method

$request->post(array(
	"first_name"=>"Michael",
	"last_name"=>"Cheng"
));

If no parameters are needed, simply ->get() or ->post()

$request->get()

The result will be attached to the return value of the request method. Therefore, you may wish to set

$result = $request->get();

In addition to the request methods stated above, public facing methods also include the following

You may set headers to send along with the request. Method chaining can be performed

$request->setHeaders(...)->post();

The cURL info may be retrieved after the request has been sent.

$request->post();
$info = $request->getCurlInfo();

See curl_getinfo() for more information.

An sample application would be to retrieve weather information from a remote server. The OpenWeatherMap provides an API we can use.

$request = new HttpRequest("http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather");
$result = $request->get(array(
	"q"=>"Taipei,TW",
	"units"=>"metric"
));

This would return a result of

{"coord":{"lon":121.53,"lat":25.05},"sys":{"type":1,"id":7479,"message":0.024,"country":"TW","sunrise":1434575048,"sunset":1434624349},"weather":[{"id":803,"main":"Clouds","description":"broken clouds","icon":"04d"}],"base":"stations","main":{"temp":30.82,"pressure":1004,"humidity":49,"temp_min":28.89,"temp_max":32},"visibility":10000,"wind":{"speed":5.7,"deg":250,"var_beg":220,"var_end":280},"clouds":{"all":75},"dt":1434590837,"id":1668341,"name":"Taipei","cod":200}

Which you can then parse.