MAKING USE OF A L ITTLE-KNOWN GEM:

THE WORDPRESS HTTP API

RYAN DUFFWordCamp US 2015

A FEW QUICKQUESTIONS

MY THEORY ON cURL USAGE

WHY USING cURL

IS BAD

THE WORDPRESSHTTP API

4 EASY TO USE WRAPPER FUNCTIONS

wp_remote_get()

wp_remote_post()

wp_remote_head()

wp_remote_request()

wp_safe_remote_*()

PROCESSING RESPONSES

wp_remote_retrieve_body()

wp_remote_retrieve_header()

wp_remote_retrieve_headers()

wp_remote_retrieve_response_code()

wp_remote_retrieve_response_message()

REQUESTS FOR PHP

A QUICK SIDEBAR ON CACHING

USEFUL API TOOLS

POSTMANChrome app

Free

PAWMac only (OS X 10.9+)

$29.99 (Free trial; 30% discount for students)

Extension to create HTTP API code from results

LINKS

https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/http-api/

https://codex.wordpress.org/HTTP_API

http://requests.ryanmccue.info/

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/33055

https://www.getpostman.com/

https://luckymarmot.com/paw

https://luckymarmot.com/paw/extensions/WordPressCodeGenerator

QUESTIONS/CONTACTRYAN DUFFryan@fusionized.com

http://fusionized.com

@ryancduff