GET Requests

<?php
// Procedural
$response = http_get('http://localhost.example', null, $info); // Object-oriented
$request = new HttpRequest('http://localhost.example'); $response = $request->send();
?>

• After the http_get call, $response will be a string containing the body of the response and $info will contain an associative array with information about the request and response. null is used in place of an array of request options that will be covered in more detail shortly.
• The HttpRequest block is an object-oriented equivalent of the http_get procedural call and offers a more explicit (albeit slightly less concise) API for setting and getting data about the request and response.
• The constructor for the HttpRequest class has two additional optional parameters not shown here: a constant representing the request method (the default is HTTP_METH_GET for a GET request) and an associative array of request options as included in the http_get call.