Older versions of NetCurl was not "chained" as default. All calls made had to  be separately made, instead of X->CALL()→chainedCall().

All examples on this page are based on the unit tests delivered with the module.

The module name is as the name reveals based on the curl library. But it also supports other web-drivers. Besides of this, this module has a small driver for handling basic SOAP-calls. The class itself is called  Tornevall_SimpleSoap, and is initialized automatically when using http-calls with "?wsdl" in the URL. If you think that the tiny parameter "?wsdl" is useless, enforcing the SoapClient during the web-call is possible by using NETCURL_POST_DATATYPES::DATATYPE_JSON, instead of DATATYPE_JSON or similar. More about this, will come.

Module initialization

The easiest way to get started with the module is with composer:

# Install Composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
# Initialize components
php composer.phar require tornevall/tornelib-php-netcurl

Then add a code block to your php-script:

<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');
use \TorneLIB\MODULE_CURL;

The last usage-row is added to simplify the instance creation of the library. Instead of running

new \TorneLIB\MODULE_CURL();

this makes it possible to just run a

new MODULE_CURL();

Note that if you initialize the module with no constructor arguments, you can set it up more detailed afterwards. The module was, before the chain implementation, built in a way that you in a default state never needed to configure anything, but configuration was available if requirements changed. For example, it was possible to initialize the module and then run more calls after each other, with different settings (i.e. different outgoing ip-interfaces, when there was a need to spread the calls between many hosts). Yes; this is basically a "going under the radar"-function, with spoofability.

Primary calls

To make a call to a website, NetCurl provides some basic methods that does the hard work for you. Depending on what you need to do (GET data, POST data, etc), the methods are called following:

Quick start: Oneliners

Running with the latest version of NetCurl makes it possible to quick-fire a web-session, with only one row of code.

$getIpByJson = (new \TorneLIB\MODULE_CURL('http://identifier.tornevall.net/?json'))->getParsed();

The response of the request should look like something like this:

stdClass Object
(
    [ip] => 127.0.0.1
    [host] => localhost
    [HTTP_HOST] => identifier.tornevall.net
    [HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; +TorneLIB-NetCurl-6.0.17 +TorneLIB+cUrl-6.0.17)
    [HTTP_ACCEPT] => */*
    [HTTP_EXPECT] => 100-continue
)

Authentications

With NetCurl 6.0.18 and newer versions, initializing the library with authenication values is also possible. However, currently, the best supported authentication is CURLAUTH_BASIC (NETCURL_AUTH_TYPES::AUTHTYPE_BASIC), with failover on CURLAUTH_ANY. To use authentication at construction level, one can use something like this:

$myWebRequest = (new MODULE_CURL("https://test.com/get/this/info/with/my/personal/account", array(), NETCURL_POST_METHODS::METHOD_GET, array('auth'=>array('username'=>'username', 'password'=>'password'))))->getParsed();

Without this oneliner, the call can also be done with the following code:

$regularRequest = new MODULE_CURL();
$regularRequest->setAuthentication("username", "password");
$chainRequest = $regularRequest->doGet("https://test.com/get/this/info/with/my/personal/account")->getParsed();