PHP Curl Class: HTTP requests made easy

PHP Curl Class is an object-oriented wrapper of the PHP cURL extension that makes it easy to send HTTP requests and integrate with web APIs.

Installation

To install PHP Curl Class, simply:

$ composer require php-curl-class/php-curl-class

Quick Start and Examples

require 'Curl.php';

use \Curl\Curl;

$curl = new Curl();
$curl->get('http://www.example.com/');

$curl = new Curl();
$curl->get('http://www.example.com/search', array(
    'q' => 'keyword',
));

$curl = new Curl();
$curl->post('http://www.example.com/login/', array(
    'username' => 'myusername',
    'password' => 'mypassword',
));

$curl = new Curl();
$curl->setBasicAuthentication('username', 'password');
$curl->setUserAgent('');
$curl->setReferrer('');
$curl->setHeader('X-Requested-With', 'XMLHttpRequest');
$curl->setCookie('key', 'value');
$curl->get('http://www.example.com/');

if ($curl->error) {
    echo 'Error: ' . $curl->error_code . ': ' . $curl->error_message;
}
else {
    echo $curl->response;
}

var_dump($curl->request_headers);
var_dump($curl->response_headers);

$curl = new Curl();
$curl->setOpt(CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
$curl->get('https://encrypted.example.com/');

$curl = new Curl();
$curl->put('http://api.example.com/user/', array(
    'first_name' => 'Zach',
    'last_name' => 'Borboa',
));

$curl = new Curl();
$curl->patch('http://api.example.com/profile/', array(
    'image' => '@path/to/file.jpg',
));

$curl = new Curl();
$curl->patch('http://api.example.com/profile/', array(
    'image' => new CURLFile('path/to/file.jpg'),
));

$curl = new Curl();
$curl->delete('http://api.example.com/user/', array(
    'id' => '1234',
));

// Enable gzip compression and download a file.
$curl = new Curl();
$curl->setOpt(CURLOPT_ENCODING , 'gzip');
$curl->download('https://www.example.com/image.png', '/tmp/myimage.png');

// Case-insensitive access to headers.
$curl = new Curl();
$curl->download('https://www.example.com/image.png', '/tmp/myimage.png');
echo $curl->response_headers['Content-Type'] . "\n"; // image/png
echo $curl->response_headers['CoNTeNT-TyPE'] . "\n"; // image/png

$curl->close();

// Example access to curl object.
curl_set_opt($curl->curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1');
curl_close($curl->curl);

// Requests in parallel with callback functions.
$multi_curl = new MultiCurl();

$multi_curl->success(function($instance) {
    echo 'call to "' . $instance->url . '" was successful.' . "\n";
    echo 'response: ' . $instance->response . "\n";
});
$multi_curl->error(function($instance) {
    echo 'call to "' . $instance->url . '" was unsuccessful.' . "\n";
    echo 'error code: ' . $instance->error_code . "\n";
    echo 'error message: ' . $instance->error_message . "\n";
});
$multi_curl->complete(function($instance) {
    echo 'call completed' . "\n";
});

$multi_curl->addGet('https://www.google.com/search', array(
    'q' => 'hello world',
));
$multi_curl->addGet('https://duckduckgo.com/', array(
    'q' => 'hello world',
));
$multi_curl->addGet('https://www.bing.com/search', array(
    'q' => 'hello world',
));

$multi_curl->start();

Available Methods

Curl::__construct($base_url = null)
Curl::__destruct()
Curl::beforeSend($callback)
Curl::buildPostData($data)
Curl::call()
Curl::close()
Curl::complete($callback)
Curl::delete($url, $data = array())
Curl::download($url, $mixed_filename)
Curl::downloadComplete($fh)
Curl::error($callback)
Curl::exec($ch = null)
Curl::get($url, $data = array())
Curl::getOpt($option)
Curl::head($url, $data = array())
Curl::headerCallback($ch, $header)
Curl::options($url, $data = array())
Curl::patch($url, $data = array())
Curl::post($url, $data = array())
Curl::progress($callback)
Curl::put($url, $data = array())
Curl::setBasicAuthentication($username, $password = '')
Curl::setCookie($key, $value)
Curl::setCookieFile($cookie_file)
Curl::setCookieJar($cookie_jar)
Curl::setDefaultJsonDecoder()
Curl::setDefaultTimeout()
Curl::setDefaultUserAgent()
Curl::setDigestAuthentication($username, $password = '')
Curl::setHeader($key, $value)
Curl::setJsonDecoder($function)
Curl::setOpt($option, $value)
Curl::setReferer($referer)
Curl::setReferrer($referrer)
Curl::setTimeout($seconds)
Curl::setURL($url, $data = array())
Curl::setUserAgent($user_agent)
Curl::success($callback)
Curl::unsetHeader($key)
Curl::verbose($on = true)
Curl::http_build_multi_query($data, $key = null)
Curl::is_array_assoc($array)
Curl::is_array_multidim($array)
MultiCurl::__construct($base_url = null)
MultiCurl::__destruct()
MultiCurl::addDelete($url, $data = array())
MultiCurl::addDownload($url, $mixed_filename)
MultiCurl::addGet($url, $data = array())
MultiCurl::addHead($url, $data = array())
MultiCurl::addOptions($url, $data = array())
MultiCurl::addPatch($url, $data = array())
MultiCurl::addPost($url, $data = array())
MultiCurl::addPut($url, $data = array())
MultiCurl::beforeSend($callback)
MultiCurl::close()
MultiCurl::complete($callback)
MultiCurl::error($callback)
MultiCurl::getOpt($option)
MultiCurl::setBasicAuthentication($username, $password = '')
MultiCurl::setCookie($key, $value)
MultiCurl::setCookieFile($cookie_file)
MultiCurl::setCookieJar($cookie_jar)
MultiCurl::setHeader($key, $value)
MultiCurl::setJsonDecoder($function)
MultiCurl::setOpt($option, $value)
MultiCurl::setReferer($referer)
MultiCurl::setReferrer($referrer)
MultiCurl::setTimeout($seconds)
MultiCurl::setURL($url)
MultiCurl::setUserAgent($user_agent)
MultiCurl::start()
MultiCurl::success($callback)
MultiCurl::unsetHeader($key)
MultiCurl::verbose($on = true)

Contribute

1. Check for open issues or open a new issue to start a discussion around a bug or feature.
2. Fork the repository on GitHub to start making your changes.
3. Write one or more tests for the new feature or that expose the bug.
4. Make code changes to implement the feature or fix the bug.
5. Send a pull request to get your changes merged and published.