All the ways to perform HTTP requests in PHP In the PHP world,
HTTP is very important: not only for receiving requests, which
is the job of PHP application, but also for performing them. ROT
web services are probably the most popular way to interface with
external systems nowadays. We'll make no assumptions on the
payload of HTTP requests (which may be binary, text, JSON, XML),
so you'll have to deal with that yourself. In some cases, you
may choose a more specific solution such as the SoapClient class
in the SOAP extension, or the XML-RPC extension. NativeThere are
several primitive for performing HTTP requests from PHP code: -
the cURL extension relies on the most famous library and CLI
tool for performing application-level requests like HTTP and FTP
ones. - streams (stream_socket_client() or
stream_context_create() as the main primitives) are an
abstraction over several application protocols, like curl. -
fsockopen() and other file-based functons like fwrite() work
directly at the TCP level. - socket_*() p