merchant-frontend-examples

commit 3da4a65a903ce07c13deac070355594acc148b02
parent 3ef039138165bbd8695299429cb45f94a361e8f7
Author: Marcello Stanisci <marcello.stanisci@inria.fr>
Date:   Tue, 15 Nov 2016 12:48:23 +0100

Getting rid of pecl_http

Diffstat:
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php/helpers.php
 | 
33
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1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/php/helpers.php b/php/helpers.php
@@ -35,19 +35,26 @@
   }
 
   /**
-   * Feed `$json` to the backend and return the "(pecl) http response object"
-   * corresponding to the `$backend_relative_url` call
+   * 'body' is an array, representing the JSON to POST. NOTE: we do NOT
+   * rely on a more structured way of doing HTTP, like the one offered by
+   * pecl_http, as its installation was NOT always straightforward.
    */
-  function post_to_backend($backend_relative_url, $json){
-    $url = url_join("https://backend.demo.taler.net/", $backend_relative_url);
-    $req = new http\Client\Request("POST",
-                                   $url,
-                                   array ("Content-Type" => "application/json"));
-    $req->getBody()->append($json);
-    // Execute the HTTP request
-    $client = new http\Client;
-    $client->enqueue($req)->send();
-    return $client->getResponse();
+  function post_to_backend($backend_uri, $body){
+    $json = json_encode($body);
+    $c = curl_init(url_join ("https://backend.demo.taler.net/", $backend_uri));
+    $options = array(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
+                     CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
+                     CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $json,
+                     // Disabling SSL for the sole purpose of speed
+                     // up the tutorial, as the normal user is likely
+                     // to NOT have certs for taler.net
+                     CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => false,
+                     CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
+                     CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => 
+                       array('Content-Type: application/json'));
+    curl_setopt_array($c, $options);
+    $r = curl_exec($c);
+    return array("status_code" => curl_getinfo($c, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE),
+                 "body" => $r);
   }
-
 ?>