tiny-http

Basically each web application starts with an INPUT (an incoming request which would be: GET, POST, etc) and an OUTPUT a final response (JSON, HTML, XML, etc).

So the Tiny/Http it's an layer which holds both INPUT and OUTPUT objects and gives to your application a possibility to manipulate with them during the application's lifecycle.

Due to the simple interface of the package it can be integrated to any web application.

Request object

The request would be either an http query (a query received from a web server) or received from a command line interface (CLI)

e.g:

[POST] http://test.com/import/files [CLI] php import files

<?php

    use Tiny\Http\Request;
    use Tiny\Http\RequestCliParams;
    use Tiny\Http\RequestHttpParams;

    $request = new Request((php_sapi_name() === 'cli'
        ? new RequestCliParams($_SERVER)
        : new RequestHttpParams($_SERVER)
    ));

    echo $request->getRequest(); // prints the `files/import` or `import files` for the CLI mode
    echo $request->getMethod(); // prints `GET`, `POST`, `CONSOLE`, etc

In code snippet above the Request object extracts a requests method and a request string from a super global array of $_SERVER. You should not be worried which mode is activated now CLI or the Http both follow to a one interface.

Response object

The Response object mostly used to generate a final result which will be returned back to a web server or command line and it usually keeps response code, response type and the response it self. The response object could be modified by controllers (if we are following by MVC structure or somewhere else like Middleware

<?php

    use Tiny\Http\ResponseCli;
    use Tiny\Http\ResponseHttp;
    use Tiny\Http\ResponseHttpUtils;

    $response = (php_sapi_name() === 'cli'
        ? new ResponseCli()
        : new ResponseHttp(
            new ResponseHttpUtils()
        );

    $response
        ->setCode(201)
        ->setResponse('{"name": "test"}')
        ->setResponseType('application/json');

    // we don't care about neither "CLI" nor "HTTP", we just print the value
    echo $response->getResponseForDisplaying();

Under the hood the Response object uses headers (for the http mode ) which will be sending depending on your response type, please read more in the documentation.

Installation

Run the following to install this library:

$ composer require esase/tiny-http

Documentation

https://tiny-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tiny-http/docs/index.html