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PHP-REST-client

A PHP Class that will set send an HTTP DELETE, GET, POST, PUT to a URI. Headers can be set, and the data can be sent as either an HTTP query string or JSON

Send an HTTP POST

<?php
use restbuilder\RestBuilder;

include_once 'RestBuilder';

/**
 * Assumes that the API URI returns JSON
 * Assumes that the API URI uses token authentication
 * @return array
 */
function createNewUser($token)
{
  $myCaller =  new RestBuilder;
  $data = [
    'username' => 'bob.jones',
    'password' => 'bobspassword',
    'name'     => 'Bob Jones',
  ];

  try {
    return json_decode($myCaller
      ->setUri('http://localhost/users/')
      ->setHttpVerb('post')
      ->addHeader('Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
      ->addHeader('x-access-token:'.$token)
      ->setPostData($data)
      ->sendRequest(), true);
  } catch (Exception $e) {
    echo "Caught exception ".$e->getMessage();
  }

}

/**
 * Creates a user by sending the POST with JSON data
 * Assumes that the API returns JSON
 * Assumes that the API uses token authentication
 * @return array
 */
public function createUserViaJson($token)
{
  $myCaller =  new RestBuilder;
  $data = [
    'username' => 'bob.jones',
    'password' => 'bobspassword',
    'name'     => 'Bob Jones',
  ];

  $jsonPostData = json_encode($data);

  return json_decode($myCaller
    ->setUri('http://localhost/users/')
    ->setHttpVerb('post')
    ->addHeader('x-access-token:'.$token)
    ->setPostData($jsonPostData)
    ->sendAsJson()
    ->sendRequest(), true);   
}

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