Httpful is a simple Http Client library for PHP 5.3+. There is an emphasis of readability, simplicity, and flexibility – basically provide the features and flexibility to get the job done and make those features really easy to use.

Features

• Readable HTTP Method Support (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, HEAD, PATCH and OPTIONS)
• Custom Headers
• Automatic "Smart" Parsing
• Automatic Payload Serialization
• Basic Auth
• Client Side Certificate Auth
• Request "Templates"

Here's something to whet your appetite. Search the twitter API for tweets containing "#PHP". Include a trivial header for the heck of it. Notice that the library automatically interprets the response as JSON (can override this if desired) and parses it as an array of objects.

$url = "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=" . urlencode('#PHP');
$response = Request::get($url)
    ->withXTrivialHeader('Just as a demo')
    ->send();

foreach ($response->body->results as $tweet) {
    echo "@{$tweet->from_user} tweets \"{$tweet->text}\"\n";
}

A PHP Archive (or .phar) file is available for downloading. Simply download the .phar, drop it into your project, and include it like you would any other php file. This method is ideal smaller projects, one off scripts, and quick API hacking.

<?php
include('httpful.phar');
$r = \Httpful\Request::get($uri)->sendIt();
...

Httpful is PSR-0 compliant and can be installed using composer. Simply add nategood/httpful to your composer.json file. Composer is the sane alternative to PEAR. It is excellent for managing dependancies in larger projects.

{
    "require": {
        "nategood/httpful": "*"
    }
}

Because Httpful is PSR-0 compliant, you can also just clone the Httpful repository and use a PSR-0 compatible autoloader to load the library, like Symfony's. Alternatively you can use the PSR-0 compliant autoloader included with the Httpful (simply require("bootstrap.php")).

You can checkout the Httpful Landing Page for more info including many examples and documentation.

• Add support for CSV Handling PR #32

• Handle empty responses in JsonParser and XmlParser

• Added support for setting XMLHandler configuration options
• Added examples for overriding XmlHandler and registering a custom parser
• Removed the httpful.php download (deprecated in favor of httpful.phar)

• Bug fix serialization default case and phpunit tests

• Added Support for Registering Mime Handlers
• Created AbstractMimeHandler type that all Mime Handlers must extend
• Pulled out the parsing/serializing logic from the Request/Response classes into their own MimeHandler classes
• Added ability to register new mime handlers for mime types