php-guzzleHow to use PHP Guzzle Client?

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

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

// Send a request to http://httpbin.org/get
$response = $client->request('GET', 'get');

echo $response->getStatusCode(); // 200
echo $response->getHeaderLine('content-type'); // 'application/json; charset=utf8'
echo $response->getBody(); // '{"type":"url","url":"http:\/\/httpbin.org\/get","args":{},"headers":{"host":"httpbin.org","accept":"*\/*"}}'

Output example

200
application/json; charset=utf8
{"type":"url","url":"http:\/\/httpbin.org\/get","args":{},"headers":{"host":"httpbin.org","accept":"*\/*"}}

Code explanation

• $client = new GuzzleHttp\Client(['base_uri' => 'http://httpbin.org/']); - creates a client with a base URI
• $response = $client->request('GET', 'get'); - sends a request to http://httpbin.org/get
• echo $response->getStatusCode(); - prints the status code of the response
• echo $response->getHeaderLine('content-type'); - prints the content type of the response
• echo $response->getBody(); - prints the body of the response

Helpful links

• Guzzle Documentation
• Guzzle GitHub Repository

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