Yesterday, I had to connect to an external API using cookie based authentication. I initially thought of doing it with curl, but I remembered Guzzle, and wanted to give it a try.
Hello Guzzle
Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client that makes it easy to send HTTP requests and trivial to integrate with web services.In pseudocode:
- create a guzzle client
- create a cookie
- login and update that cookie
- use that cookie for next requests
1: // Create a Client
2: $client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client\Client([
3: 'base_url' => 'http://someserver.com',
4: 'defaults' => [
5: 'headers' => [
6: 'Accept' => 'application/json'
7: ]
8: ]
9: ]);
10:
11: // Create a new cookie
12: $cookieJar = new \GuzzleHttp\Cookie\CookieJar();
13:
14: // Send a post
15: $request = $client->createRequest('POST', '/api/login', [
16: 'cookies' => $cookieJar,
17: 'body' => [
18: 'UserName' => 'USERNAME',
19: 'Password' => 'PASSWORD',
20:
21: ]
22: ]);
23:
24: // ....
25:
26: // Reuse the cookie for next requests
27: $response = $client->get('/api/user', [
28: 'cookies' => $cookieJar
29: ]);
You can store the cookie in a shared session so that you don't need to login each time you do a request.
Links:
- Fetching a URL with Cookies using curl: http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/webprog/pcook/ch11_04.htm
