PHP Requests Library within Codeigniter

Question

I\'m using the requests library (http://requests.ryanmccue.info/) for PHP.

I installed composer and added the following Json configuration in composer.json

Answer 1

There is a simple way to use Requests for PHP with Codeigniter.

You may follow these few easy steps.

Step - 1

Unzip latest Requests for PHP zip and copy the contents of the library directory to {codeigniter_directory}/application/third_party/Request-{version} for example you have Requests for PHP 1.6.0 and your CI project is in /usr/sites/www/myciproject then copy the files to /usr/sites/www/myciproject/application/third_party/Requests-1.6.0.

Step - 2

Create a file PHPRequests.php in {codeigniter_directory}/application/libraries with this content

Step - 3

In your controller you can use Requests by loading PHPRequests library we created in previous step.

$this->load->library('PHPRequests');

Like this test function

public function test()
{
    $this->load->library('PHPRequests');
    $response = Requests::get('https://github.com/timeline.json');
    var_dump($response->body);
}

Hope this will help.