httpRequest.class.php (aka simplified curl)

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Because I didn’t want to include any third-party stuff in my raw PHP code I build this simple general-purpose class.

This class works with php5 and php5-curl.

Usage

Initialization

$req = new httpRequest('http://example.org/itemPage.html');

Make a POST request

$req->setPOST($rawPostData);

Set the referrer URL

$req->setReferrerUrl('http://example.org/?search=item');

Set the user agent string

$req->setUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) '.
  'Gecko/20080530 Firefox/2.0.0.14 Flock/1.2.1');

Set a random user agent from a file

$req->userAgentsFile = 'fileName'; // By default 'userAgents' file is used
$req->setRandUserAgent();

Set the request timeout in seconds

$req->setTimeout(15); // The default timeout is 30s

Set the file to be used to store and send cookies

$req->setCookieFile('cookiesFile');

Set cookie contents in header

$req->setCookieContents('fruit=apple; colour=red');

Specify wether or not to follow redirects

$req->followLocation(false); // Default is true

Set connection proxy

$req->setProxy('socks5://127.0.0.1:9050'); // Supported types are http, https, socks4 and socks5

Set connection headers

$req->setHeaders(['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH: XMLHttpRequest',   'Accept-Language: da, en-gb;q=0.8, en;q=0.7']);

Execute the request

$response = $req->exec();

Response

  • status (ERROR | OK)
  • message
  • data

Neat!

httpRequest.class.php on my github https://github.com/psyb0t/httpRequest.class.php