Re: Discussion about new Curl URL API and ext/curl improvements

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 2:10 AM Pierrick Charron <pierrick@php.net> wrote: > For a long time, ext/curl worked with handles as "curl resources" and > functions mapped to the libcurl functions, but since PHP8.0 "curl > resources" were converted to opaque classes with no methods. So my main > goal here is to come up with a solution for the new Curl URL API, but maybe > also to be consistent, make some changes to existing curl classes like > CurlHandle to add methods and improve the current state of the > extension. > > This is so bizarre, I *know* I wrote an OOPified cURL extension some years ago (called it curli), and now I can't find it anywhere. What universe am I even in? Anyway, +1 on making a whole new OOPified cURL implementation. $ch = (new CurlHandle($uri))->setOpt(Curl::OPT_METHOD, 'post')->perform(); Let it throw exceptions, do proper type checks, all the goodness. Let the procedural APIs behave differently than the object methods and that's okay. cURL is a foundational extension in PHP and I respect the choices that were made in its API design, but it's 2022, and we deserve a better ext/curl. -Sara