sabre/http

This library provides a toolkit to make working with the HTTP protocol easier.

Most PHP scripts run within a HTTP request but accessing information about the HTTP request is cumbersome at least, mainly do to superglobals and the CGI standard.

There's bad practices, inconsistencies and confusion. This library is effectively a wrapper around the following PHP constructs:

For input:

• $_GET
• $_POST
• $_SERVER
• php://input or $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA.

For output:

• php://output or echo.
• header()

What this library provides, is a Request object, and a Response object, both which are easily extendable and mockable. On top of that, it comes with a number of other features that make it easy to work with HTTP related stuff.

• Installation instructions
• Usage

A quick history

This library came to existence in 2009, as a part of the sabre/dav project, which uses it heavily.

It got split off into a separate library to make it easier to manage releases and hopefully giving it use outside of the scope of just sabre/dav.

Although completely independently developed, this library has a LOT of overlap with Symfony's HttpFoundation.

Said library does a lot more stuff and is significantly more popular, so if you are looking for something to fulfill this particular requirement, we'd recommend also considering HttpFoundation.