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

I will just add some points to a well-written answer by Gopkumar Gopalan to make it work in codeigniter 3.x.

Step 1

Add the Requests library in your composer.json

Step 2

Install dependencies composer install

Step 3

Create a file PHPRequests.php in {codeigniter_directory}/application/libraries with this content (Note there is a change in the path of the requests library)

Step 4

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 it helps someone