alimranahmed / easyhttp

A Laravel HTTP-client to make HTTP request easier and log requests and responses

EasyHttp

Make Http request easily and log the request and response in Laravel's default log(/storage/logs).

This Laravel 5 HTTP-client package to make HTTP request easier. It's a wrap on Guzzle HTTP client and cURL that simplify the common requests. We can use Guzzle or cURL whatever we want on run time of this package.

Installation

Run the following command in your terminal while you are at the root of your project directory:

composer require alimranahmed/easyhttp

That's all!

Usages

By default all the request is made using Guzzle.

<?php
//For GET request
$response = Http::get('www.example.com/get');
 
//For POST Request
$data = ['key' => 'value'];
$headers = ['Content-Type' => 'application/json'];
$response = Http::post('www.example.com/post', $data, $headers);
 
//For PUT request
$data = ['key' => 'value'];
$headers = ['Content-Type' => 'application/json'];
$response = Http::put('www.example.com/put', $data, $headers);
 
//For DELETE request
$response = Http::delete('www.example.com/delete');
 
//To Retrieve the response status, header and body
$response->getStatusCode(); //for status code
$response->getHeaders(); //for headers
$response->contents; //for body

To make any request using cURL we can simply use the using() method as below:

<?php
Http::using('curl')->get('www.example.com/get');

License

This package is licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0

easyhttp's Issues

A Crucial issue reported from reddit about cURL client of this package

Skimming it, at least for cURL, if the first supplied header isn't "Content-Type" => "application/json" then it won't json_encode() during POST.
And it won't ever do it for PUTs.
And might have a problem with empty data arrays that should become an empty Dict rather than List (e.g. instead wants the output of json_encode( (object) NULL )).
Also it might be desired to be able to json_encode( ..., JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES ).
P.S. sometimes fields want to be rawurlencode()'d, I have a note for this for Discord webhooks.

by Daneel_Trevize(in Reddit)