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To the community: At this time Unirest-PHP only support syncronous requests, and I would really love to implement asynchronous support. If you guys have any feedback or ideas please comment on issue #23.

Unirest for PHP

Unirest is a set of lightweight HTTP libraries available in multiple languages, ideal for most applications:

• Make GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE requests
• It supports form parameters, file uploads and custom body entities
• Supports gzip
• Supports Basic Authentication natively
• Customizable timeout
• Customizable default headers for every request (DRY)
• Automatic JSON parsing into a native object for JSON responses

Created with love by thefosk @ mashape.com

Install with Composer

If you're using Composer to manage dependencies, you can add Unirest with it.

Install source from GitHub

Unirest-PHP requires PHP v5.3+. Download the PHP library from Github, and require in your script like so:

To install the source code:

And include it in your scripts:

Creating Request

So you're probably wondering how using Unirest makes creating requests in PHP easier, let's look at a working example:

File Uploads

To upload files in a multipart form representation use the return value of Unirest::file($path) as the value of a parameter:

Custom Entity Body

Sending a custom body such as a JSON Object rather than a string or form style parameters we utilize json_encode for the body:

Basic Authentication

Authenticating the request with basic authentication can be done by providing the username and password arguments:

Request

• url - Endpoint, address, or uri to be acted upon and requested information from.
• headers - Request Headers as associative array or object
• body - Request Body as associative array or object
• username - Basic Authentication username
• password - Basic Authentication password

Response

Upon recieving a response Unirest returns the result in the form of an Object, this object should always have the same keys for each language regarding to the response details.

• code - HTTP Response Status Code (Example 200)
• headers - HTTP Response Headers
• body - Parsed response body where applicable, for example JSON responses are parsed to Objects / Associative Arrays.
• raw_body - Un-parsed response body

Advanced Configuration

You can set some advanced configuration to tune Unirest-PHP:

Timeout

You can set a custom timeout value (in seconds):

Default Request Headers

You can set default headers that will be sent on every request:

You can clear the default headers anytime with:

SSL validation

You can explicitly enable or disable SSL certificate validation when consuming an SSL protected endpoint:

By default is true.