/**
* Makes an HTTP request using CURL.
*
* @param $url string the URL to request
* @param string $method The request method ('GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'DELETE', etc)
* @param null $data Any additional data to include in the payload.
* @param null $headers Additional headers to send.
* @param int $timeout The request timeout in milliseconds
* @return bool|string The response string, or false if there was an error.
*/
public static function request_curl($url, $method = 'GET', $data = null, $headers = null, $timeout = 300)
{
$cn = curl_init();
if (!empty($data)) {
if (strtolower($method) == 'post' || strtolower($method) == 'put') {
curl_setopt($cn, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
} else {
$url = HttpHelper::appendToUrl($url, $data);
}
}
curl_setopt($cn, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($cn, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout);
curl_setopt($cn, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $method);
curl_setopt($cn, CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE, 0);
curl_setopt($cn, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip,deflate');
if (!self::$verifySsl) {
curl_setopt($cn, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($cn, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
}
if (!empty($headers)) {
$h = array();
while (list($header, $headerValue) = each($headers)) {
array_push($h, $header . ': ' . $headerValue);
}
curl_setopt($cn, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $h);
}
try {
ob_start();
if (curl_exec($cn)) {
return ob_get_clean();
} else {
ob_end_clean();
return false;
}
} catch (\Exception $e) {
ob_end_clean();
throw $e;
}
}
