“PHP Fatal error: Class 'HttpRequest' not found”

Question

I\'ve been stuck trying to solve this problem in many ways, reading a lot of posts but still having no luck. I work on a Mac, OSX 10.7 Lion, and I\'m writing a plugin for a

Answer 1

The class HttpRequest is provided by v1 of this PECL extension.

Re-install via: $ pecl install -f pecl_http-1.7.6

You can find documentation for v2 here, though: https://mdref.m6w6.name/http

Answer 2

alternatively, in case you cannot control certain environmental variables or install packages, you might try using curl which should return a json object (below is a working snippet of a google api call).

$url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/tokeninfo?id_token=TOKEN_DATA_123';
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$json = json_decode($response, true);
curl_close($ch);
print_r($json);
$userEmail = $json["email"];