phabel VS Guzzle

Yeah I'm aware of Rector, there's a funny story here, I actually created https://github.com/phabelio/phabel which does the same thing as Rector, but @ installation time (fully integrated with Composer!): I created because I simply did not know about its existence, or else I would've just used it, instead :)

Rector is a very nice project, but I still haven't gotten around to integrating it into our codebase at work, because it uses phpstan instead of Psalm, and apart from being slower than Psalm, phpstan kept having various issues and crashes while scanning our codebase, unlike Psalm which mostly worked out of the box (I even became maintainer of Psalm, due to the large amount of additional performance improvements I added due to our needs @ work).

I have found this: https://github.com/phabelio/phabel but it only handles up to PHP 8.0.

Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client library. It’s a simple and effective solution for sending HTTP requests and managing HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.0 responses. This versatile tool excels in several areas, allowing developers to build query strings quickly, send POST requests, upload JSON data, and handle other HTTP-related tasks. Moreover, Guzzle facilitates both synchronous and asynchronous request handling, providing flexibility for different scenarios.

Symfony HTTP Client or Guzzle. If new build then Symfony, but have a lot of existing implementations with Guzzle. Both have worked very well. Worst case fallback to cURL.

but if you'd rather make raw requests, guzzle is a good option (though I'd opt for the sdk): https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle

PHP has built-in cURL support, but I never use it. I like using Guzzle or Symfony's http-client.

I just ran into multiple errors regarding the pre-packaged cURL: It does not feature accepting compressed responses (which I suppose is due to absense of `libz` being compiled/linked in).

I am busy building a small application that monitors websites using guzzle. My idea is to run through the list of websites alphabetically and make a guzzle request to each and update my table with the http response codes of each site.

Like Node.js, the PHP ecosystem has quite a number of good HTTP request libraries. Guzzle is perhaps one of the most well known, but there are many other popular libraries out there. Luckily, PHP also has some interface standards around HTTP clients and messages, particularly PSR-7, PSR-17, and PSR-18,