php-guzzleHow to make HTTP request with PHP Guzzle?

Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client that makes it easy to send HTTP requests and trivial to integrate with web services.

To make an HTTP request with Guzzle, you need to create a GuzzleHttp\Client object and pass it the base URI of the web service you are trying to access.

$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client(['base_uri' => 'http://httpbin.org/']);

Then you can use the $client object to make an HTTP request. For example, to make a GET request:

$response = $client->request('GET', 'get');
echo $response->getBody();

The output of the above code will be a JSON string containing the response from the web service:

{
  "args": {},
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "*/*",
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "User-Agent": "GuzzleHttp/6.3.3 curl/7.54.0 PHP/7.2.10"
  },
  "origin": "1.2.3.4",
  "url": "http://httpbin.org/get"
}

Code explanation

1. $client = new GuzzleHttp\Client(['base_uri' => 'http://httpbin.org/']); - creates a GuzzleHttp\Client object and passes it the base URI of the web service you are trying to access.

2. $response = $client->request('GET', 'get'); - uses the $client object to make an HTTP request. In this case, it is a GET request.

3. echo $response->getBody(); - prints out the response from the web service.

Helpful links

• Guzzle Documentation
• Guzzle GitHub Repository

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