Http/Client.php

This method will try to detect the MIME type of a file. If the fileinfo extension is available, it will be used. If not, the mime_magic extension which is deprected but is still available in many PHP setups will be tried.

If neither extension is available, the default application/octet-stream MIME type will be returned

Will flatten a potentially multi-dimentional array of parameters (such as POST parameters) into a flat array of (key, value) paris. In case of multi-dimentional arrays, square brackets ([]) will be added to the key to indicate an array.

The method returns an array of (key, value) pairs (because keys are not necessarily unique. If one of the parameters in as array, it will also add a [] suffix to the key.

This method is deprecated since Zend Framework 1.9 in favour of self::_flattenParametersArray() and will be dropped in 2.0

Note that if the header has more than one value, an array will be returned.

If $config['storeresponse'] is set to false, or no response was stored yet, will return null

Should be used to reset the request parameters if the client is used for several concurrent requests.

clearAll parameter controls if we clean just parameters or also headers and last_*

While this method is not called more than one for a client, it is seperated from ->request() to preserve logic and readability

$type should be one of the supported types - see the self::AUTH_* constants.

To enable authentication: $this->setAuth('shahar', 'secret', Zend_Http_Client::AUTH_BASIC);

To disable authentication: $this->setAuth(false);

A cookie jar is an object that holds and maintains cookies across HTTP requests and responses.

Can be used in two ways:

1. $data is null (default): $filename is treated as the name if a local file which will be read and sent. Will try to guess the content type using mime_content_type().
2. $data is set - $filename is sent as the file name, but $data is sent as the file contents and no file is read from the file system. In this case, you need to manually set the Content-Type ($ctype) or it will default to application/octet-stream.

This function can be used in several ways to set the client's request headers: 1. By providing two parameters: $name as the header to set (eg. 'Host') and $value as it's value (eg. 'www.example.com'). 2. By providing a single header string as the only parameter eg. 'Host: www.example.com' 3. By providing an array of headers as the first parameter eg. array('host' => 'www.example.com', 'x-foo: bar'). In This case the function will call itself recursively for each array item.

Validated the passed method and sets it. If we have files set for POST requests, and the new method is not POST, the files are silently dropped.

This function is here for two reasons: 1. For advanced user who would like to set their own data, already encoded 2. For backwards compatibilty: If someone uses the old post($data) method. this method will be used to set the encoded data.

$data can also be stream (such as file) from which the data will be read.