PHP Rest CURL

PHP Rest CURL is a wrapper class for PHP, simplifying the typical CRUD requests to the extreme.

All the data passed to the server is encoded to JSON and decoded from JSON.

Getting Started

Using it is as simple as can be.

<?php
require_once('rest.inc.php');

// CALL
$result = RestCurl::get("https://api.mongolab.com/api/1/databases/my-db/collections/bookings?apiKey=0123456789abcde");

CRUD Methods

RestCurl supports the typical CRUD methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) as follows:

// GET
$result = RestCurl::get($URL, array('id' => 12345678));

// POST
$result = RestCurl::post($URL, array('name' => 'RestCurl'));

// PUT
$result = RestCurl::put($URL, array('$set' => array('version' => 1)));

// DELETE
$result = RestCurl::delete($URL, array());

The second parameter is an optional key/value array.

In GET requests its contents will be translated into query string parameters
- array('id' => '12345678') will turn the URL into <url-prefix>/?id=12345678
- If GET parameters are already present in the URL, nothing will be appended
For the rest of methods, the contents of the second parameter will be stringified as JSON and passed as the request body.

Return value

The previous example:

$res = RestCurl::get("https://api.mongolab.com/api/1/databases/my-db/collections/bookings?apiKey=0123456789abcde");

Will assign to $res something like:

print_r($res);
	
    Array
    (
        [status] => 200
        [data] => Array
            (
                [0] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [_id] => stdClass Object
                            (
                                [$oid] => 52476ad1e4b08781144211f3
                            )

                        [city] => Barcelona
                        [date] => 2014-03-10
                        [guest] => Jordi Moraleda
                        [company] => Uniclau
                    )

            )
        [header] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 01:17:53 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
    Expires: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 08:00:00 GMT
    Last-Modified: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 01:17:53 GMT
    Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0, post-check=0, pre-check=0
    Pragma: no-cache
    X-Frame-Options: DENY
    Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
    Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
    Transfer-Encoding: chunked
    Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8

    )

In the array:

$res['status'] is the HTTP status code.
$res['data'] is the JSON response parsed into an array
$res['header'] is a string with the response headers

Other HTTP methods

If you want to use methods besides GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, you can achieve that by just calling:

$result = RestCurl::exec('OPTIONS', $URL, array('foo' => 'bar'));

Dependencies

To get PHP Rest Curl working, you will need to install the corresponding package for your platform.

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php5-curl

Red Hat/CentOS

yum install php-common php-curl

Mac OS X (development)

Just use MAMP. Everything is bundled inside.

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