PHP HTTP Client

Http.php

<?php

class HTTP {
  function curl_init($url) {
    $curl = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, DEBUG);
    return $curl;
  }

  function curl_exec($curl) {
    $data = curl_exec($curl);

    switch ($this->detect_content_type($curl)) {
      case 'application/json':
        return json_decode($data, true);

      default:
        return $data;
    }
  }

  function detect_content_type($curl) {
    $parts = explode(';', curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE));
    return trim($parts[0]);
  }

  function http_build_url($url, $params) {
    if ($params) $url .= '?' . http_build_query($params);
    return $url;
  }

  function get($url, $params = array(), $headers = array()) {
    $url = $this->http_build_url($url, $params);
    $curl = $this->curl_init($url);
    if ($headers) curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
    return $this->curl_exec($curl);
  }

  function post($url, $params, $headers = array()) {
    $curl = $this->curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);
    if ($headers) curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
    return $this->curl_exec($curl);
  }
}