http-client vs http-foundation

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http-client		http-foundation
	Project
2	Mentions	5
1,879	Stars	8,572
1.4%	Growth	0.3%
7.6	Activity	7.8
10 days ago	Latest Commit	11 days ago
PHP	Language	PHP
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

http-client

Posts with mentions or reviews of http-client. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-28.

Does a generic third party api connector package exist? A swiss army knife for connecting to various apis?
2 projects | /r/PHP | 28 Jan 2023

I like this one personality: https://github.com/symfony/http-client
Another PHP 8++ cheat sheet
3 projects | dev.to | 22 Feb 2022

There are many ways but I prefer using the http-client package: composer require symfony/http-client.

http-foundation

Posts with mentions or reviews of http-foundation. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-22.

Laravel TrustProxies with multiple proxies
2 projects | /r/PHPhelp | 22 Mar 2023

For ref take a read of the symfony component in use. getTruatedValues() is interesting
Implement PHP session manager in a vanilla PHP project
2 projects | /r/PHPhelp | 20 Jan 2023
Sweet'n'safe arrays & types
2 projects | /r/PHP | 25 Nov 2021

This seems extremely similar to parameter bag - how is this different/better?
How do I find methods in a large codebase like the Laravel framework and it's dependencies?
2 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 9 Jun 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing http-client and http-foundation you can also consider the following projects:

illuminate-adapter - [READ-ONLY] An adapter for Laravel

http-kernel - Provides a structured process for converting a Request into a Response

attoparsec-conduit - A streaming data library

posty-traversy-media - Posty project code from the Traversy Media Laravel crash course

saloon - 🤠 Build beautiful API integrations and SDKs with Saloon

symfony-static-dumper - [DEPRECATED] Use standardized static site generators like Vercel, Statamatic etc.

php-ast - Extension exposing PHP 7 abstract syntax tree

console - Eases the creation of beautiful and testable command line interfaces

http-client-contracts - A set of HTTP client abstractions extracted out of the Symfony components

event-dispatcher - Provides tools that allow your application components to communicate with each other by dispatching events and listening to them

HTTPlug - HTTPlug, the HTTP client abstraction for PHP

polyfill-mbstring - Symfony polyfill for the Mbstring extension