/**
* shall be used beyond high level http connections unit tests (default parameters)
*
* @param string $url url to call
* @param string $method
* @param string $returnType CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE, etc... (default returns rhe http response data
* @param array $curlOptions (numeric arrays get interpreted as headers)
* @return mixed
*/
protected function curl($url, $method = CURLOPT_HTTPGET, $returnType = "data", $curlOptions = array())
{
$options = $this->getDefaultCurlOptions();
if (!\tao_helpers_Array::isAssoc($curlOptions)) {
$curlOptions = array(CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => $curlOptions);
}
foreach ($curlOptions as $key => $value) {
if (isset($options[$key]) && is_array($options[$key]) && is_array($value)) {
$options[$key] = array_merge($options[$key], $value);
} else {
$options[$key] = $value;
}
}
$process = curl_init($url);
if ($method != "DELETE") {
curl_setopt($process, $method, 1);
} else {
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "DELETE");
}
curl_setopt_array($process, $options);
$data = curl_exec($process);
if ($returnType != "data") {
$data = curl_getinfo($process, $returnType);
}
curl_close($process);
return $data;
}
