Comments on: HTTP Class for PHP (supports both cURL and fsockopen)

By: Jannik

Jannik — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:59:56 +0000

include_once(‘class.http.php’);
$http = new Http();
$http->setMethod(‘POST’);
$http->addParam(‘email’ , ‘sry);
$http->addParam(‘pass’ , ‘bla’);
$http->setReferrer(‘http://facebook.com/‘);
$http->execute(‘https://login.facebook.com/login.php‘);
echo ($http->error) ? $http->error : $http->result;

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By: Jannik

Jannik — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:58:15 +0000

Hello,

this Class is excellent:

Could you tell me, why Facebook keeps saying: Cookies not enabled?

I’ve been using it like this:

setMethod(‘POST’);
$http->addParam(‘email’ , ‘myemail’);
$http->addParam(‘pass’ , ‘mypassword’);
$http->setReferrer(‘http://facebook.com/‘);
$http->execute(‘https://login.facebook.com/login.php‘);
echo ($http->error) ? $http->error : $http->result;
?>

Any solution would be very nice!

By: Plsnhat

Plsnhat — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:04:40 +0000

To make custom headers possible, add the method:

/**
* Add a header to the request
*
* @param string Name of header
* @param string Value of header
* @return void
*/
function addHeader($name, $value){
if(!empty($name) && !empty($value)){
$this->headers[] = $name . “: ” . $value;
}
}

In method execute() add

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $this->headers); // Set custom headers

after

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); // Return in string

and

// Set custom headers
foreach($this->headers as $header){
$requestHeader .= $header;
}

after

$requestHeader .= “Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n”;

Be aware: It will not be checked whether you will overwrite default headers! So be cautious!

By: Plsnhat

Plsnhat — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:44:33 +0000

To prevent E_DEPRECATED notice, you should replace:

!eregi($match = “^http/[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+[ \t]+([0-9]+)[ \t]*(.*)\$”, $headers[0], $matches)

with:

if(!preg_match(“/^http\/[0-9]+\.[0-9]+[ \t]+([0-9]+)[ \t]*(.*)$/i”, $headers[0], $matches))

By: Plsnhat

Plsnhat — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:33:13 +0000

There’s an error: When trying to do a request with an url not available, the following code will return false for $content:

// Get the target contents
$content = curl_exec($ch);

As the result, the following code is not valid (because $contentArray is not existing):

$this->_parseHeaders($contentArray[count($contentArray) - 2]);

You can fix this bug by using the following code at the end of execute():

// Get the target contents
$content = curl_exec($ch);

// Store the error (is any)
$this->_setError(curl_error($ch));

// Check if could not load content
if($content===false){
throw new httpCurlExecFailed($this->error);
}
$contentArray = explode(“\r\n\r\n”, $content);

// Get the request info
$status = curl_getinfo($ch);

// Store the contents
$this->result = $contentArray[count($contentArray) - 1];

// Parse the headers
$this->_parseHeaders($contentArray[count($contentArray) - 2]);

// Close PHP cURL handle
curl_close($ch);

You only need the following class:

You may now fetch this exception:

try {
$req->execute($url);
} catch(httpCurlExecFailed $e){
echo “Error while executing request: ” . $e->getMessage . “\r\n”;
}

By: motobineuse

motobineuse — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:10:05 +0000

i love this bog, i just bookmarked it to my delicious, thank you for posting this.

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By: Emran Hasan

Emran Hasan — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:29:05 +0000

@MiniGod – The class has not been updated for a long time and does have a few more issues. I’d suggest you use the PECL HTTP extension – it’s a good one and these days I use that too.

By: MiniGod

MiniGod — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:25:45 +0000

Oh. And i also get a few warnings. Mostly “Undefined variable: cookieString”, also “Undefined index: transfer-encoding” etc….

By: MiniGod

MiniGod — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:21:14 +0000

Hey. I’ve been trying out your class, but i get an error on most websites:
“501 Not Implemented” or “404 Bad Request” with the body “Method Not Implemented”.
I get that last error in your own test_fbapp.php script.

I do not know why i get this. Do you?
Same error in both PHP 5.3.0 and PHP 5.2.11.