codeigniter-restclient

CodeIgniter-REST Client

CodeIgniter-REST Client is a CodeIgniter library which makes it easy to do use REST services/API's such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr, whether they are public or hidden behind HTTP Basic/Digest. The examples below are VERY simple ones and more can much more can be done with it.

Please take a look at the code to see about things like api_key() and other post/put/delete methods.

Requirements

1. PHP 5.1+
2. CodeIgniter 2.0.0+
3. cURL
4. CodeIgniter Curl library: http://getsparks.org/packages/curl/show

Usage

// Load the rest client spark
$this->load->spark('restclient/2.2.1');

// Load the library
$this->load->library('rest');

// Set config options (only 'server' is required to work)

$config = array('server' 			=> 'https://example.com/',
				//'api_key'			=> 'Setec_Astronomy'
				//'api_name'		=> 'X-API-KEY'
				//'http_user' 		=> 'username',
				//'http_pass' 		=> 'password',
				//'http_auth' 		=> 'basic',
				//'ssl_verify_peer' => TRUE,
				//'ssl_cainfo' 		=> '/certs/cert.pem'
				);

// Run some setup
$this->rest->initialize($config);

// Pull in an array of tweets
$tweets = $this->rest->get('statuses/user_timeline/'.$username.'.xml');

Acknowledgements

CodeIgniter Rest Client was origionally written by Phil Sturgeon, The following people have contributed to this project:

• Chris Kacerguis (https://github.com/kitsched)
• vlakoff (https://github.com/vlakoff)
• Steven Bullen (https://github.com/StevenBullen)
• rhbecker (https://github.com/rhbecker)
• János Rusiczki (https://github.com/kitsched)
• David Genelid (https://github.com/junkie)
• Dmitry Serzhenko (https://github.com/serzhenko) -> Added PATCH support
• Paul Yasi (https://github.com/paulyasi) -> SSL Peer Verification