Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client that makes it easy to send HTTP requests and trivial to integrate with web services.
- Simple interface for building query strings, POST requests, streaming large uploads, streaming large downloads, using HTTP cookies, uploading JSON data, etc...
- Can send both synchronous and asynchronous requests using the same interface.
- Uses PSR-7 interfaces for requests, responses, and streams. This allows you to utilize other PSR-7 compatible libraries with Guzzle.
- Abstracts away the underlying HTTP transport, allowing you to write environment and transport agnostic code; i.e., no hard dependency on cURL, PHP streams, sockets, or non-blocking event loops.
- Middleware system allows you to augment and compose client behavior.
$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
$res = $client->request('GET', 'https://api.github.com/user', [
'auth' => ['user', 'pass']
]);
echo $res->getStatusCode();
// 200
echo $res->getHeaderLine('content-type');
// 'application/json; charset=utf8'
echo $res->getBody();
// {"type":"User"...'
// Send an asynchronous request.
$request = new \GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Request('GET', 'http://httpbin.org');
$promise = $client->sendAsync($request)->then(function ($response) {
echo 'I completed! ' . $response->getBody();
});
$promise->wait();
The recommended way to install Guzzle is through Composer.
# Install Composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
Next, run the Composer command to install the latest stable version of Guzzle:
php composer.phar require guzzlehttp/guzzle
After installing, you need to require Composer's autoloader:
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
You can then later update Guzzle using composer:
composer.phar update
Version | Status | Packagist | Namespace | Repo | Docs | PSR-7 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3.x | EOL | guzzle/guzzle |
Guzzle |
v3 | v3 | No |
4.x | EOL | guzzlehttp/guzzle |
GuzzleHttp |
N/A | N/A | No |
5.x | Maintained | guzzlehttp/guzzle |
GuzzleHttp |
v5 | v5 | No |
6.x | Latest | guzzlehttp/guzzle |
GuzzleHttp |
v6 | v6 | Yes |