RingPHP Handlers

Guzzle uses RingPHP handlers to send HTTP requests over the wire. RingPHP provides a low-level library that can be used to “glue” Guzzle with any transport method you choose. By default, Guzzle utilizes cURL and PHP’s stream wrappers to send HTTP requests.

RingPHP handlers makes it extremely simple to integrate Guzzle with any HTTP transport. For example, you could quite easily bridge Guzzle and React to use Guzzle in React’s event loop.

Using a handler

You can change the handler used by a client using the handler option in the GuzzleHttp\Client constructor.

use GuzzleHttp\Client;
use GuzzleHttp\Ring\Client\MockHandler;
// Create a mock handler that always returns a 200 response.
$handler = new MockHandler(['status' => 200]);
// Configure to client to use the mock handler.
$client = new Client(['handler' => $handler]);

At its core, handlers are simply PHP callables that accept a request array and return a GuzzleHttp\Ring\Future\FutureArrayInterface. This future array can be used just like a normal PHP array, causing it to block, or you can use the promise interface using the then() method of the future. Guzzle hooks up to the RingPHP project using a very simple bridge class (GuzzleHttp\RingBridge).

Creating a handler

See the RingPHP project documentation for more information on creating custom handlers that can be used with Guzzle clients.