A simple PHP delicious REST example with pecl_http

David — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:39:27 +0000

send();
print $response->getBody();
?>

You’ll probably need to view the source in your browser to see the output.

The second argument isn’t required in this call, because HttpRequest defaults to a GET request anyway, but it’s just helpful to see where you can specify the different HTTP methods. The others being, post, put and delete.

Install pecl_http for PHP

David — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:33:41 +0000

You will probably want to ensure that curl supports https before getting underway:

curl -V

Check that the output contains https:

>: curl -V
curl 7.19.2 (i386-apple-darwin9.5.0) libcurl/7.19.2 OpenSSL/0.9.8i zlib/1.2.3
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict http file https ftps 
Features: Largefile NTLM SSL libz

If it doesn’t:

sudo port deactivate curl
sudo port install curl +ssl

Once you have curl with https support:

sudo pecl install pecl_http

If you followed my previous howto, you’ll want to move the module to the location specified in your php.ini file:

sudo cp /opt/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/http.so /opt/local/lib/php/extensions

Restart lighttpd and then you’ll be good to go.

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A simple PHP delicious REST example with pecl_http

Install pecl_http for PHP