HttpServer

A HTTP server written in PHP with help of the Symfony Components.

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Installation.

$ composer require thenlabs/http-server

Usage.

Create a file with the next example content:

You should change the content according to your needs.

<?php
// run-server.php

require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

use ThenLabs\HttpServer\HttpServer;

$config = [
    'host' => '127.0.0.1',
    'port' => 8080,
    'document_root' => __DIR__.'/vendor/thenlabs/http-server/tests/Functional/document_root',
];

$server = new HttpServer($config);
$server->start();

while (true) {
    $server->run();
}

This file should be executed like that:

$ php run-server.php

Once does it, we can navigate to the URL and we will see the respectively page.

In our example, we are serving the index.html file which is stored within the tests/document_root directory.

Creating custom routes.

The HttpServer use the Symfony Routing Component for handle the routing, therefore, you can use all the his possibilities.

The next example shown the way to creating a custom route which only can be access by a GET request.

<?php

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

// ...

$server->get('/article/{id}', function (Request $request, array $parameters): Response {
    return new Response("This is the article {$parameters['id']}");
});

// ...

Using the logs.

Like you can will verify, by default are will shows in the console the result of all server requests.

The logs are created with help of the popular Monolog library.

The next example showns a way to put the logs in a file.

<?php

// ...
use Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler;

// ...
$server->getLogger()->pushHandler(new StreamHandler('/path/to/file.logs'));

Development.

Running the tests.

Start the selenium server.

$ java -jar path/to/selenium-server-standalone-x.y.z.jar

Run PHPUnit.

$ ./vendor/bin/pyramidal