<?php

/*

* Created on Feb 12, 2008

*

* Donald J. Ankney

* Academic Personnel Information Services

* ankneyd@u.washington.edu

* 

* Class is a REST webservice client

* can use SSL 

* 

*/





class RestClient {

public $certPath;

public $keyPath;

public $uriBase;



// Method pulls the resource via curl and returns a string of the resource

function getResource ($uri) {  

$ch = curl_init($this->uriBase.$uri);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

//TODO: VERIFYPEER is necessary for enterprise use, implement some rules around it

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);

if ($this->keyPath AND $this->certPath) { // if cert/key attributes are set, use them

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERT, $this->certPath);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLKEY, $this->keyPath);

}



$resource=curl_exec($ch);

$info = curl_getinfo($ch);

if ($info1 != '200') {

//TODO: Better error handling

return FALSE;

};

curl_close($ch);

return $resource;

}

}



$webQ = new RestClient;

$webQ->uriBase = ';

$webQ->certPath = '/Path/to/cert.pem';

$webQ->keyPath = '/Path/to/key.pem';



$result = $webQ->getResource("/survey/number");//Or whatever you need do construct to pull the data

if ($result) {

//Do something with the resource

} else {

//TODO: Better error handling

echo "ERROR: http transfer problem";

}



?>