Requests
Requests for PHP is a humble HTTP request library. It simplifies how you interact with other sites and takes away all your worries. (by rmccue)
Retrofit
Retrofit implementation in PHP. A REST client for PHP. (by tebru)
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| Requests | Retrofit | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 3,531 | 156 | |
| -0.2% | 0.0% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| 20 days ago | 4 months ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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.
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.
Requests
Posts with mentions or reviews of Requests.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-29.
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API Client Design Across Languages - Part 2 - Making Requests
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,
Retrofit
Posts with mentions or reviews of Retrofit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Retrofit yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Requests and Retrofit you can also consider the following projects:
Guzzle - Guzzle, an extensible PHP HTTP client
HTTPFul - A Chainable, REST Friendly, PHP HTTP Client. A sane alternative to cURL.
PHP VCR - Record your test suite's HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for fast, deterministic, accurate tests.
Phi/Middleware
Buzz - PHP's lightweight HTTP client
zend-diactoros
HTTPlug - HTTPlug, the HTTP client abstraction for PHP
JCRequest - Another Guzzle wrapper