guzzle/guzzle v3.9.3

Guzzle/Guzzle is a powerful and robust PHP HTTP client and webservice framework. It offers an enhanced API that provides all the capabilities of cURL through a simplified interface. With Guzzle, developers can truly leverage the perks of HTTP/1.1, including persistent connections, connection pooling, and parallel requests. Additionally, its service description DSL allows faster building of excellent web service clients and its Symfony2 event-based plugin system imparts the ability to completely modify the behaviour of a request. However, this version, Guzzle 3.x, is not the latest one and is only maintained for bug and security fixes. Guzzle 5.x is the new, upgraded version accessible at https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle.

Guzzle/Guzzle can be installed and used in your PHP project through Composer, the recommended installation technique. Start by installing Composer using the command: curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php. Then, add Guzzle as a dependency to your project with the command: php composer.phar require guzzle/guzzle:~3.9.

In your PHP file, you need to require Composer's autoloader post-installation, which can be done by adding this line: require 'vendor/autoload.php;.

The Guzzle/Guzzle documentation providing useful information about how to navigate and use this framework resides at http://guzzle3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/. Here, you can find intricacies, set-up instructions, usage examples, and remedy for common issues faced while working with Guzzle. If your queries or hitches are not covered in these documents, you can visit the dedicated Guzzle forums at https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/guzzle or converse on the IRC channel (#guzzlephp @ irc.freenode.net). The open-source nature of Guzzle ensures that newer versions and fixes are always on the horizon.