lib.php

<?php

// This file is part of Moodle - http://moodle.org/
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/**
 * Moodle REST client class
 * TODO: XML to PHP
 */
class webservice_rest_client {

    private $serverurl;
    private $token;

    /**
     * Constructor
     * @param string $serverurl a Moodle URL
     * @param string $token
     */
    public function __construct($serverurl, $token) {
        $this->serverurl = $serverurl;
        $this->token = $token;
    }

    /**
     * Set the token used to do the REST call
     * @param string $token
     */
    public function set_token($token) {
        $this->token = $token;
    }

    /**
     * Execute client WS request with token authentication
     * @param string $functionname
     * @param array $params
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function call($functionname, $params) {
        global $DB, $CFG;

        $result = download_file_content($this->serverurl
                        . '?wstoken='.$this->token.'&wsfunction='
                        . $functionname, null, $params);

        //TODO : transform the XML result into PHP values - MDL-22965

        return $result;
    }

}