How to do a http request using php

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There are two ways of doing this with php.

1. PEAR (HTTP_Request)
   See the code samples below.

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   <?php
   require_once "HTTP/Request.php";
   
   $req =& new HTTP_Request("https://robot.lk/");
   if (!PEAR::isError($req->sendRequest())) {
       echo $req->getResponseBody();
   }
   ?> 
   

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   <?php
   require_once "HTTP/Request.php";
   
   $req =& new HTTP_Request("https://robot.lk");
   $req->setMethod(HTTP_REQUEST_METHOD_POST);
   $req->addPostData("Foo", "bar");
   if (!PEAR::isError($req->sendRequest())) {
        $response1 = $req->getResponseBody();
   } else {
        $response1 = "";
   }
   
   echo $response1;
   ?> 
   

2. cURL

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   $url = "https://robot.lk/";
   
   $request = curl_init();
   curl_setopt($request,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
   curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
   $response = curl_exec($request);
   curl_close($request);