HTTP Request

Http Class

POST The Http class is located in Monster\App\Models\Http.php. It is a simple PHP class for making HTTP requests using cURL.

Constructor

The constructor initializes a new cURL handle and sets default options.

$http = new Http();

Methods

Header

This method adds a single HTTP header to the request.

$http->Header('Content-Type: application/json');

Headers

This method sets the HTTP headers for the request.

$http->Headers(['Content-Type: application/json', 'Authorization: Bearer token']);

Option

This method sets a cURL option for the request.

$http->Option(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

Setting Multi Options

Sets default cURL options for the request. You can modify these defaults by calling the setDefaults() method:

$http->setDefaults([
    CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => 2,
    CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => true
]);

Timeout

This method sets the request timeout in seconds.

$http->Timeout(30);

Url

This method sets the URL for the request.

$http->Url('https://example.com/api/users');

Method

This method sets the HTTP method for the request (e.g. "GET", "POST", etc.)

$http->Method('GET');

Body

This method sets the request body for the request.

$http->Body(json_encode(['name' => 'John Doe', 'email' => 'john@example.com']));

Send

This method sends the HTTP request and returns the response.

$response = $http->Send();

getStatus

This method returns the HTTP status code of the response.

$status = $http->getStatus();

Destructor

The destructor closes the cURL handle when the object is destroyed.

Full Example

Here is an example of how you can use the Http class in a controller:

<?php

namespace Monster\App\Controllers;

use Monster\App\Models\Http;

class Test
{
    public function index()
    {
        $http = new Http();

        $http->Url('https://example.com/api/users')
             ->Method('POST')
             ->Headers(['Content-Type: application/json', 'Authorization: Bearer token'])
             ->Body(json_encode(['name' => 'John Doe', 'email' => 'john@example.com']))
             ->Timeout(30);

        $response = $http->Send();

        if ($http->getStatus() === 200) {
            // Request was successful
            echo "Response: " . $response;
        } else {
            // Request failed
            echo "Error: " . $response;
        }
    }
}

This index method makes a POST request to 'https://example.com/api/users' with a JSON payload, and then checks the status code of the response to determine if the request was successful.

To continue with the documentation and examples of HTTP requests, refer to the HTTPMonster repository at https://github.com/ReactMVC/HTTPMonster. However, in the API-Monster framework, use "Http" as the class name instead of HTTPMonster.