The simplest cURL HTTP client for PHP
Via composer:
$ composer require "phpcurl/curlhttp"
<?php
use PHPCurl\CurlHttp\HttpClient;
$http = new HttpClient();
$response = $http->post('https://example.com/?a=b', 'my post data', ['User-Agent: My php crawler']);
// Supported: get(), post(), head(), post(), put(), delete()
$body = $response->getBody(); // Response body, string
/*
<!doctype html>
<html>
...
</html>
*/
$statusCode = $response->getStatus(); // HTTP status, int
/*
200
*/
$headers = $response->getHeaders(); // HTTP response headers, array
/*
array(
0 => 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK',
1 => 'Accept-Ranges: bytes',
2 => 'Cache-Control: max-age=604800',
3 => 'Content-Type: text/html',
4 => 'Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 07:01:58 GMT',
5 => 'Etag: "359670651"',
6 => 'Expires: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 07:01:58 GMT',
7 => 'Last-Modified: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 23:54:35 GMT',
8 => 'Server: ECS (rhv/818F)',
9 => 'Vary: Accept-Encoding',
10 => 'X-Cache: HIT',
11 => 'x-ec-custom-error: 1',
12 => 'Content-Length: 1270',
);
*/