Symfony2 - How to perform an external Request

Question

Using Symfony2, I need to access an external API based on HTTPS.

How can I call an external URI and manage the response to \"play\" with it. For example, to render a

Answer 1

Symfony does not have its own rest client, but as you already mentioned there are a couple of bundles. This one is my prefered one:

https://github.com/CircleOfNice/CiRestClientBundle

$restClient = $this->container->get('ci.restclient');

$restClient->get('http://www.someUrl.com');
$restClient->post('http://www.someUrl.com', 'somePayload');
$restClient->put('http://www.someUrl.com', 'somePayload');
$restClient->delete('http://www.someUrl.com');
$restClient->patch('http://www.someUrl.com', 'somePayload');

$restClient->head('http://www.someUrl.com');
$restClient->options('http://www.someUrl.com', 'somePayload');
$restClient->trace('http://www.someUrl.com');
$restClient->connect('http://www.someUrl.com');

You send the request via

$response = $restclient->get($url); 

and get a Symfony response object. Then you can get the status code via

$httpCode = $response-> getStatusCode();

Your code would look like:

$restClient = $this->container->get('ci.restclient');
if ($restClient->get('http://www.yourUrl.com')->getStatusCode !== 200) {
    // no error
} else {
    // error
}