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Guzzle, PHP HTTP client and webservice framework
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[](http://travis-ci.org/guzzle/guzzle)
Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client that makes it easy to work with HTTP/1.1 and takes
the pain out of consuming web services.
```php
$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();
$response = $client->get('http://guzzlephp.org');
$res = $client->get('https://api.github.com/user', ['auth' => ['user', 'pass']]);
echo $res->getStatusCode();
// "200"
echo $res->getHeader('content-type');
// 'application/json; charset=utf8'
echo $res->getBody();
// {"type":"User"...'
var_export($res->json());
// Outputs the JSON decoded data
```
- Pluggable HTTP adapters that can send requests serially or in parallel
- Doesn't require cURL, but uses cURL by default
- Streams data for both uploads and downloads
- Provides event hooks & plugins for cookies, caching, logging, OAuth, mocks,
etc.
- Keep-Alive & connection pooling
- SSL Verification
- Automatic decompression of response bodies
- Streaming multipart file uploads
- Connection timeouts
Get more information and answers with the
[Documentation](http://guzzlephp.org/),
[Forums](https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/guzzle),
and IRC ([#guzzlephp](irc://irc.freenode.net/#guzzlephp) @ irc.freenode.net).
### Installing via Composer
The recommended way to install Guzzle is through
[Composer](http://getcomposer.org).
```bash
# Install Composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
```
Next, update your project's composer.json file to include Guzzle:
```javascript
{
"require": {
"guzzlehttp/guzzle": "~4.0"
}
}
```
After installing, you need to require Composer's autoloader:
```php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
```
### Documentation
More information can be found in the online documentation at
http://guzzlephp.org/.