# Unirest for PHP [![version][packagist-version]][packagist-url] [![Downloads][packagist-downloads]][packagist-url] [![Tests](https://github.com/apimatic/unirest-php/actions/workflows/php.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/apimatic/unirest-php/actions/workflows/php.yml) [![License][packagist-license]][license-url] Unirest is a set of lightweight HTTP libraries available in [multiple languages](http://unirest.io). This fork is maintained by [APIMatic](https://www.apimatic.io) for its Code Generator as a Service. ## Features * Request class to create custom requests * Simple HttpClientInterface to execute a Request * Automatic JSON parsing into a native object for JSON responses * Response data class to store http response information * Supports form parameters, file uploads and custom body entities * Supports gzip * Supports Basic, Digest, Negotiate, NTLM Authentication natively * Configuration class manage all the HttpClient's configurations * Customizable timeout * Customizable retries and backoff * Customizable default headers for every request (DRY) ## Supported PHP Versions - PHP 7.2 - PHP 7.4 - PHP 8.0 - PHP 8.1 - PHP 8.2 ## Installation To install `apimatic/unirest-php` with Composer, just add the following to your `composer.json` file: ```json { "require": { "apimatic/unirest-php": "^4.0.0" } } ``` or by running the following command: ```shell composer require apimatic/unirest-php ``` ## Usage ### Creating a HttpClient with Default Configurations You can create a variable at class level and instantiate it with an instance of `HttpClient`, like: ```php private $httpClient = new \Unirest\HttpClient(); ``` ### Creating a HttpClient with Custom Configurations To create a client with custom configurations you first required an instance of `Configuration`, and then add it to the HttpClient during its initialization, like: ```php $configurations = \Unirest\Configuration::init() ->timeout(10) ->enableRetries(true) ->retryInterval(2.5); $httpClient = new \Unirest\HttpClient($configurations); ``` This `Configuration` instance can further be customized by setting properties like: `maximumRetryWaitTime`, `verifyPeer`, `defaultHeaders`, etc. Check out [Advanced Configuration](#advanced-configuration) for more information. ### Creating a Request After the initialization of HttpClient, you will be needing an instance of `Request` that is required to be exchanged as `Response`. ```php $request = new \Unirest\Request\Request( 'http://mockbin.com/request', RequestMethod::GET, ['headerKey' => 'headerValue'], Unirest\Request\Body::json(["key" => "value"]'), RetryOption::ENABLE_RETRY ); ``` Let's look at a working example of sending the above request: ```php $headers = array('Accept' => 'application/json'); $query = array('foo' => 'hello', 'bar' => 'world'); $response = $this->httpClient->execute($request); $response->getStatusCode(); // HTTP Status code $response->getHeaders(); // Headers $response->getBody(); // Parsed body $response->getRawBody(); // Unparsed body ``` ### JSON Requests *(`application/json`)* A JSON Request can be constructed using the `Unirest\Request\Body::Json` helper: ```php $headers = array('Accept' => 'application/json'); $data = array('name' => 'ahmad', 'company' => 'mashape'); $body = Unirest\Request\Body::Json($data); $request = new \Unirest\Request\Request( 'http://mockbin.com/request', RequestMethod::POST, $headers, $body ); $response = $this->httpClient->execute($request); ``` **Notes:** - `Content-Type` headers will be automatically set to `application/json` - the data variable will be processed through [`json_encode`](http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php) with default values for arguments. - an error will be thrown if the [JSON Extension](http://php.net/manual/en/book.json.php) is not available. ### Form Requests *(`application/x-www-form-urlencoded`)* A typical Form Request can be constructed using the `Unirest\Request\Body::Form` helper: ```php $headers = array('Accept' => 'application/json'); $data = array('name' => 'ahmad', 'company' => 'mashape'); $body = Unirest\Request\Body::Form($data); $request = new \Unirest\Request\Request( 'http://mockbin.com/request', RequestMethod::POST, $headers, $body ); $response = $this->httpClient->execute($request); ``` **Notes:** - `Content-Type` headers will be automatically set to `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` - the final data array will be processed through [`http_build_query`](http://php.net/manual/en/function.http-build-query.php) with default values for arguments. ### Multipart Requests *(`multipart/form-data`)* A Multipart Request can be constructed using the `Unirest\Request\Body::Multipart` helper: ```php $headers = array('Accept' => 'application/json'); $data = array('name' => 'ahmad', 'company' => 'mashape'); $body = Unirest\Request\Body::Multipart($data); $request = new \Unirest\Request\Request( 'http://mockbin.com/request', RequestMethod::POST, $headers, $body ); $response = $this->httpClient->execute($request); ``` **Notes:** - `Content-Type` headers will be automatically set to `multipart/form-data`. - an auto-generated `--boundary` will be set. ### Multipart File Upload simply add an array of files as the second argument to to the `Multipart` helper: ```php $headers = array('Accept' => 'application/json'); $data = array('name' => 'ahmad', 'company' => 'mashape'); $files = array('bio' => '/path/to/bio.txt', 'avatar' => '/path/to/avatar.jpg'); $body = Unirest\Request\Body::Multipart($data, $files); $request = new \Unirest\Request\Request( 'http://mockbin.com/request', RequestMethod::POST, $headers, $body ); $response = $this->httpClient->execute($request); ``` If you wish to further customize the properties of files uploaded you can do so with the `Unirest\Request\Body::File` helper: ```php $headers = array('Accept' => 'application/json'); $body = array( 'name' => 'ahmad', 'company' => 'mashape' 'bio' => Unirest\Request\Body::File('/path/to/bio.txt', 'text/plain'), 'avatar' => Unirest\Request\Body::File('/path/to/my_avatar.jpg', 'text/plain', 'avatar.jpg') ); $request = new \Unirest\Request\Request( 'http://mockbin.com/request', RequestMethod::POST, $headers, $body ); $response = $this->httpClient->execute($request); ``` **Note**: we did not use the `Unirest\Request\Body::multipart` helper in this example, it is not needed when manually adding files. ### Custom Body Sending a custom body such rather than using the `Unirest\Request\Body` helpers is also possible, for example, using a [`serialize`](http://php.net/manual/en/function.serialize.php) body string with a custom `Content-Type`: ```php $headers = array('Accept' => 'application/json', 'Content-Type' => 'application/x-php-serialized'); $body = serialize((array('foo' => 'hello', 'bar' => 'world')); $request = new \Unirest\Request\Request( 'http://mockbin.com/request', RequestMethod::POST, $headers, $body ); $response = $this->httpClient->execute($request); ``` ### Authentication For Authentication you need httpClient instance with custom configurations, So, create `Configuration` instance like: ```php // Basic auth $configuration = Configuration::init() ->auth('username', 'password', CURLAUTH_BASIC); ``` The third parameter, which is a bitmask, will Unirest which HTTP authentication method(s) you want it to use for your proxy authentication. If more than one bit is set, Unirest *(at PHP's libcurl level)* will first query the site to see what authentication methods it supports and then pick the best one you allow it to use. *For some methods, this will induce an extra network round-trip.* **Supported Methods** | Method | Description | | -------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | `CURLAUTH_BASIC` | HTTP Basic authentication. This is the default choice | | `CURLAUTH_DIGEST` | HTTP Digest authentication. as defined in [RFC 2617](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt) | | `CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE` | HTTP Digest authentication with an IE flavor. *The IE flavor is simply that libcurl will use a special "quirk" that IE is known to have used before version 7 and that some servers require the client to use.* | | `CURLAUTH_NEGOTIATE` | HTTP Negotiate (SPNEGO) authentication. as defined in [RFC 4559](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4559.txt) | | `CURLAUTH_NTLM` | HTTP NTLM authentication. A proprietary protocol invented and used by Microsoft. | | `CURLAUTH_NTLM_WB` | NTLM delegating to winbind helper. Authentication is performed by a separate binary application. *see [libcurl docs](http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.html) for more info* | | `CURLAUTH_ANY` | This is a convenience macro that sets all bits and thus makes libcurl pick any it finds suitable. libcurl will automatically select the one it finds most secure. | | `CURLAUTH_ANYSAFE` | This is a convenience macro that sets all bits except Basic and thus makes libcurl pick any it finds suitable. libcurl will automatically select the one it finds most secure. | | `CURLAUTH_ONLY` | This is a meta symbol. OR this value together with a single specific auth value to force libcurl to probe for un-restricted auth and if not, only that single auth algorithm is acceptable. | ```php // custom auth method $configuration = Configuration::init() ->proxyAuth('username', 'password', CURLAUTH_DIGEST); ``` ### Cookies Set a cookie string to specify the contents of a cookie header. Multiple cookies are separated with a semicolon followed by a space (e.g., "fruit=apple; colour=red") ```php $configuration = Configuration::init() ->cookie($cookie); ``` Set a cookie file path for enabling cookie reading and storing cookies across multiple sequence of requests. ```php $this->request->cookieFile($cookieFile) ``` `$cookieFile` must be a correct path with write permission. ### Response Object Upon receiving a response Unirest returns the result in the form of an Object, this object should always have the same keys for each language regarding to the response details. - `getStatusCode()` - HTTP Response Status Code (Example `200`) - `getHeaders()` - HTTP Response Headers - `getBody()` - Parsed response body where applicable, for example JSON responses are parsed to Objects / Associative Arrays. - `getRawBody()` - Un-parsed response body ### Advanced Configuration You can set some advanced configuration to tune Unirest-PHP: #### Custom JSON Decode Flags Unirest uses PHP's [JSON Extension](http://php.net/manual/en/book.json.php) for automatically decoding JSON responses. sometime you may want to return associative arrays, limit the depth of recursion, or use any of the [customization flags](http://php.net/manual/en/json.constants.php). To do so, simply set the desired options using the `jsonOpts` request method: ```php $configuration = Configuration::init() ->jsonOpts(true, 512, JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK & JSON_FORCE_OBJECT & JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES); ``` #### Timeout You can set a custom timeout value (in **seconds**): ```php $configuration = Configuration::init() ->timeout(5); // 5s timeout ``` #### Retries Related ```php $configuration = Configuration::init() ->enableRetries(true) // To enable retries feature ->maxNumberOfRetries(10) // To set max number of retries ->retryOnTimeout(false) // Should we retry on timeout ->retryInterval(20) // Initial retry interval in seconds ->maximumRetryWaitTime(30) // Maximum retry wait time ->backoffFactor(1.1) // Backoff factor to be used to increase retry interval ->httpStatusCodesToRetry([400,401]) // Http status codes to retry against ->httpMethodsToRetry(['POST']) // Http methods to retry against ``` #### Proxy Set the proxy to use for the upcoming request. you can also set the proxy type to be one of `CURLPROXY_HTTP`, `CURLPROXY_HTTP_1_0`, `CURLPROXY_SOCKS4`, `CURLPROXY_SOCKS5`, `CURLPROXY_SOCKS4A`, and `CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME`. *check the [cURL docs](http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE.html) for more info*. ```php // quick setup with default port: 1080 $configuration = Configuration::init() ->proxy('10.10.10.1'); // custom port and proxy type $configuration = Configuration::init() ->proxy('10.10.10.1', 8080, CURLPROXY_HTTP); // enable tunneling $configuration = Configuration::init() ->proxy('10.10.10.1', 8080, CURLPROXY_HTTP, true); ``` ##### Proxy Authentication Passing a username, password *(optional)*, defaults to Basic Authentication: ```php // basic auth $configuration = Configuration::init() ->proxyAuth('username', 'password'); ``` The third parameter, which is a bitmask, will Unirest which HTTP authentication method(s) you want it to use for your proxy authentication. If more than one bit is set, Unirest *(at PHP's libcurl level)* will first query the site to see what authentication methods it supports and then pick the best one you allow it to use. *For some methods, this will induce an extra network round-trip.* See [Authentication](#authentication) for more details on methods supported. ```php // basic auth $configuration = Configuration::init() ->proxyAuth('username', 'password', CURLAUTH_DIGEST); ``` #### Default Request Headers You can set default headers that will be sent on every request: ```php $configuration = Configuration::init() ->defaultHeader('Header1', 'Value1') ->defaultHeader('Header2', 'Value2'); ``` You can set default headers in bulk by passing an array: ```php $configuration = Configuration::init() ->defaultHeaders([ 'Header1' => 'Value1', 'Header2' => 'Value2' ]); ``` You can clear the default headers anytime with: ```php $configuration = Configuration::init() ->clearDefaultHeaders(); ``` #### Default cURL Options You can set default [cURL options](http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php) that will be sent on every request: ```php $configuration = Configuration::init() ->curlOpt(CURLOPT_COOKIE, 'foo=bar'); ``` You can set options bulk by passing an array: ```php $configuration = Configuration::init() ->curlOpts(array( CURLOPT_COOKIE => 'foo=bar' )); ``` You can clear the default options anytime with: ```php $configuration = Configuration::init() ->clearCurlOpts(); ``` #### SSL validation You can explicitly enable or disable SSL certificate validation when consuming an SSL protected endpoint: ```php $configuration = Configuration::init() ->verifyPeer(false); // Disables SSL cert validation ``` By default is `true`. #### Utility Methods ```php // alias for `curl_getinfo` $httpClient->getInfo(); ``` ---- [license-url]: https://github.com/apimatic/unirest-php/blob/master/LICENSE [travis-url]: https://travis-ci.org/apimatic/unirest-php [travis-image]: https://img.shields.io/travis/apimatic/unirest-php.svg?style=flat [packagist-url]: https://packagist.org/packages/apimatic/unirest-php [packagist-license]: https://img.shields.io/packagist/l/apimatic/unirest-php.svg?style=flat [packagist-version]: https://img.shields.io/packagist/v/apimatic/unirest-php.svg?style=flat [packagist-downloads]: https://img.shields.io/packagist/dm/apimatic/unirest-php.svg?style=flat