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m6web/restconnection
====================

PHP class used to make requests to REST APIs easily.

1.0.0(7y ago)0104.2k↓50%PHP

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This repo is published "as is" from the `1.0.0` tarball of the deleted original at

You can use this package by requiring `m6web/restconnection`, any of your dependencies should then use it as we're replacing the original.

**Original README content below**

---

RESTConnection is a PHP class used to make requests to REST APIs easily

About
=====

[](#about)

The process is as follow :

1. instantiate a Client object, passing it the general parameters to connect to the REST api of your choice. ie : base url to the service, credentials, headers (to specify sent and accepted content types for example)
2. Use the method "request()" to send a request to this api, using parameters : url path, (optional) data to send, and method (verb, ie : get, post, put...) to use.
3. Get the resulting http status code, body, header, error message

Altough RESTConnection supports most used http verbs (get, post, put, delete, patch), you might be in a situation where only get/post are supported (your firewall might block other verbs). In that case, you can set the compatibilityMode to true. Then, every delete, put, patch verb will be passed as a POST and a special header X-HTTP-Method-Override will be added. On another hand, you also might want to force this for one specific request. Think of google translate, that usually takes the word to translate as a GET. If you want to transalte a whole paragraph you'll have to pass it as a POST and force the X-HTTP-Method-Override to GET. You can do this easily, by just adding a overriding verb to the request parameters list.

Examples
========

[](#examples)

Get twitter public tweets
-------------------------

[](#get-twitter-public-tweets)

```
// Initialize the header of our future requests, specifying the format we want to use in request and response (json)
$requestHeader = array('Accept: application/json', 'Content-Type: application/json');
// Create the Client object, for now, no credential needed as we get only public tweets
$testAPI = new RESTConnection\Client('https://api.twitter.com/1/', $requestHeader);

// Issue a GET request on 'https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/public_timeline.json'
if($testAPI->request('statuses/public_timeline.json'))
{
  // Display the tweets
  var_dump(json_decode($testAPI->getResponseBody(), true));
}
else
{
  // Something went wrong
  var_dump($testAPI->getLastError());
}
```

Post a message to campfire, highlight it and then change the room topic
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

[](#post-a-message-to-campfire-highlight-it-and-then-change-the-room-topic)

```
// Initialize the header of our future requests, specifying the format we want to use in request and response (json)
$requestHeader = array('Accept: application/json', 'Content-Type: application/json');
// Create the Client object, this time, credential are specified
$testAPI = new RESTConnection\Client('https://your.campfirenow.com/', $requestHeader, 'your_token_here', 'X');

// Issue a POST request on 'https://your.campfirenow.com/room/your_room_id/speak.json'
if($testAPI->request('room/your_room_id/speak.json', json_encode(array('message' => array('body' => "Hello"))), RESTConnection\Client::POST)))
{
  // lastStatusCode should be 201
  var_dump($testAPI->getLastStatusCode());
  // Response body contains the message id
  $result = (json_decode($testAPI->getResponseBody(), true));

  // star the message
  $messageid = $result['message']['id'];
  $testAPI->request(sprintf('messages/%s/star.json', $messageid), array(), RESTConnection\Client::POST);

  // unstar it
  // $testAPI->request(sprintf('messages/%s/star.json', $messageid), array(), RESTConnection\Client::DELETE);
}
else
{
  // Something went wrong
  var_dump($testAPI->getLastError());
}

// Issue a PUT request on 'https://your.campfirenow.com/room/your_room_id.json'
$testAPI->request('room/your_room_id.json', json_encode(array('room' => array('topic' => "this room is not about cats"))), RESTConnection\Client::PUT);
```

Credits
=======

[](#credits)

This code is partially based on this article : . Thanks to its author.

###  Health Score

33

—

LowBetter than 75% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity28

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2632d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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