yii2-curl extension ¶

1. Requirements
2. Installation
3. Usage
4. Changelog

Cool working curl extension for Yii2, including RESTful support:

• POST
• GET
• HEAD
• PUT
• DELETE

Requirements ¶

• Yii2
• PHP 5.4+
• Curl and php-curl installed

Installation ¶

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist linslin/yii2-curl "*"

Usage ¶

Once the extension is installed, simply use it in your code. The following example shows you how to handling a simple GET Request.

<?php
/**
 * Yii2 test controller
 *
 * @category  Web-yii2-example
 * @package   yii2-curl-example
 * @author    Nils Gajsek <info@linslin.org>
 * @copyright 2013-2015 Nils Gajsek<info@linslin.org>
 * @license   http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT MIT Public
 * @version   1.0.5
 * @link      http://www.linslin.org
 *
 */

namespace app\controllers;

use yii\web\Controller;
use linslin\yii2\curl;

class TestController extends Controller
{

    /**
     * Yii action controller
     */
    public function actions()
    {
        return [
            'error' => [
                'class' => 'yii\web\ErrorAction',
            ],
        ];
    }


    /**
     * cURL GET example
     */
    public function actionGetExample()
    {
        //Init curl
        $curl = new curl\Curl();

        //get http://example.com/
        $response = $curl->get('http://example.com/');
    }


    /**
     * cURL POST example with post body params.
     */
    public function actionPostExample()
    {
        //Init curl
        $curl = new curl\Curl();

        //post http://example.com/
        $response = $curl->setOption(
                CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 
                http_build_query(array(
                    'myPostField' => 'value'
                )
            ))
            ->post('http://example.com/');
    }


    /**
     * cURL multiple POST example one after one
     */
    public function actionMultipleRequest()
    {
        //Init curl
        $curl = new curl\Curl();


        //post http://example.com/
        $response = $curl->setOption(
            CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 
            http_build_query(array(
                'myPostField' => 'value'
                )
            ))
            ->post('http://example.com/');


        //post http://example.com/, reset request before
        $response = $curl->reset()
            ->setOption(
                CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 
                http_build_query(array(
                    'myPostField' => 'value'
                )
            ))
            ->post('http://example.com/');
    }


    /**
     * cURL advanced GET example with HTTP status codes
     */
    public function actionGetAdvancedExample()
    {
        //Init curl
        $curl = new curl\Curl();

        //get http://example.com/
        $response = $curl->post('http://example.com/');

        // List of status codes here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes
        switch ($curl->responseCode) {

            case 'timeout':
                //timeout error logic here
                break;
                
            case 200:
                //success logic here
                break;

            case 404:
                //404 Error logic here
                break;
        }
    }
    
    
    /**
     * cURL timeout chaining/handling
     */
    public function actionHandleTimeoutExample()
    {
        //Init curl
        $curl = new curl\Curl();

        //get http://www.google.com:81/ -> timeout
        $response = $curl->post('http://www.google.com:81/');

        // List of status codes here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes
        switch ($curl->responseCode) {

            case 'timeout':
                //timeout error logic here
                break;
                
            case 200:
                //success logic here
                break;

            case 404:
                //404 Error logic here
                break;
        }
    }
}

Changelog ¶

Release 1.0.5 - Changelog ¶

• Made body callback not depending on HTTP-Status codes anymore. You can retrieve body data on any HTTP-Status now.
• Fixed Issue https://github.com/linslin/Yii2-Curl/issues/19 where override default settings break options.
• Added timeout response handling. $curl->responseCode = 'timeout'

Release 1.0.4 - Changelog ¶

• CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER is now set to true on default - https://github.com/linslin/Yii2-Curl/issues/18
• Readme.md adjustments.

Release 1.0.3 - Changelog ¶

• Fixed override of user options. https://github.com/linslin/Yii2-Curl/pull/7
• Nice formatted PHP-examples.
• Moved parent::init(); behavior into unitTest Controller.

Release 1.0.2 - Changelog ¶

• Added custom params support
• Added custom status code support
• Added POST-Param support and a readme example
• Removed "body" support at request functions. Please use "CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS" to setup a body now.
• Readme modifications

Release 1.0.1 - Changelog ¶

• Removed widget support
• Edited some spellings + added more examples into readme.md

Release 1.0 - Changelog ¶

• Official stable release