Symfony2 : send a HTTP Request

Question

I am trying to make a HTTP Request from one of my controller to contact another URL, the goal being to contact another URL, and to simply print the HTML answer in my page. I tri

Answer 1

I would recommend you using GuzzleHttp Client - best client that I know: http://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/latest/

There is already nice bundle that integrates it into Symfony2 project: https://github.com/8p/GuzzleBundle

Then from your controller you can call:

$client   = $this->get('guzzle.client');

// GET request with parameters
$response = $client->get('http://httpbin.org/get', [
    'headers' => ['X-Foo-Header' => 'value'],
    'query'   => ['foo' => 'bar']
]);
$code = $response->getStatusCode();
$body = $response->getBody();

More info can be found on: http://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/latest/index.html