I am creating an app for Automated Recurring Billing.
Please let me know which option should I opt for sending the request to server
and why one is better than another?
I would recommend using PHP's stream contexts with the built in functions: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/book.stream.php . Full HTTP/S functionality and integrates nicely with fopen
/file_get_contents
functions. You can (for example) do a POST like this:
$chunk = file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=".FACEBOOK_APP_ID."&client_secret=".FACEBOOK_SECRET."&grant_type=client_credentials");
if ($request_ids && $chunk) {
$cookie = explode('=', $chunk);
if (count($cookie) == 2) $cookie = $cookie[1];
else $cookie = $cookie[0];
// flush it
foreach ($request_ids as $request_id) {
$context = stream_context_create(array(
'http' => array(
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => 'method=DELETE',
'user_agent' => "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)",
'max_redirects' => 0
)
));
@file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/' . $request_id . '?access_token=' . $cookie, false, $context);
}
}
This code logs into Facebook, fetches an App Login token and then uses a secure HTTP POST to delete a number of objects using the graph API.
If you need to do fancier things, you can as well.
$context = stream_context_create(array('http' => array(
// set HTTP method
'method' => 'GET',
'user_agent' => "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)",
'max_redirects' => 0
)));
// extract the cookies
$fp = fopen(URL, "r", false, $context);
$meta = stream_get_meta_data($fp);
$headers = $metadata['wrapper_data'];
fclose($fp);
Will log Will fetch you the headers returned by the URL. No external libraries required.