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educoder/pest
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A proper REST client for PHP.

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Pest
====

[](#pest)

**Pest** is a PHP client library for [RESTful](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer)web services.

Unlike [Zend\_Rest\_Client](http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.rest.client.html), which is not really a "REST" client at all (more like RPC-over-HTTP), Pest supports the four REST verbs (GET/POST/PUT/DELETE) and pays attention to HTTP response status codes.

Composer Installation
---------------------

[](#composer-installation)

To install Pest, use the following composer `require` statement:

```
{
    "require": {
        "educoder/pest": "1.0.0"
    }
}

```

Basic Example
-------------

[](#basic-example)

Pest's get/post/put/delete() return the raw response body as a string. See the info on PestXML (below) if you're working with XML-based REST services and PestJSON if you're working with JSON.

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Responses with error status codes (4xx and 5xx) raise exceptions.

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