gistfile1.php

class Rest_Client {

	/**
	 * 
	 * Perform any get type operation on a url
	 * @param string $url
	 * @return string The resulting data from the get operation
	 */
	public static function get($url) {
		$ch = curl_init();
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
		$data = curl_exec($ch);
		curl_close($ch);

		return $data;
	}

	/**
	 * 
	 * Perform any post type operation on a url
	 * @param string $url
	 * @param array $params A list of post-based params to pass
	 */
	public static function post($url,array $params = array()) {
		$ch = curl_init();
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);
		$data = curl_exec($ch);
		curl_close($ch);

		return $data;
	}
}