public function sendRequest($action, $query, $type = 'GET')
{
$result = "";
$request_url = self::$path . '?action=' . $action;
if ($query != NULL) {
$json_query = json_encode($query);
$request_url .= '&query=' . urlencode($json_query);
}
$curl_handle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, $request_url);
if ($type == 'GET') {
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1);
}
// prevent output of response contents to STDOUT
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// prevent self-signed SSL certificate errors. Remove in production environments.
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
// set authentication headers
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, VolunteerMatchAPI::getHTTPHeadersForAuthenticationRequest());
if (!($response = curl_exec($curl_handle))) {
$error = self::$errorMap["http_" . $httpStatus];
self::$errorMessage = $error ? $error : self::$defaultError;
} else {
self::$responseBody = $response;
}
self::$responseCode = curl_getinfo($curl_handle, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($curl_handle);
}
