A Rest Request component for CakePHP 2.0. I figured that I use this component so much that I might as well make it it's own repository.

rest_request

<?php
// App/controllers/components/rest_request.php
// shamelessly lifted from: http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/making-restful-requests-in-php/
// slightly modified
class RestRequestComponent extends Object
{
	var $components = array('Session');
	
	protected $url;
	protected $verb;
	protected $requestBody;
	protected $requestLength;
	protected $username;
	protected $password;
	protected $acceptType;
	protected $responseBody;
	protected $responseInfo;
	
	public function __construct ($url = null, $verb = 'GET', $requestBody = null)
	{
		$this->url        = $url;
		$this->verb       = $verb;
		$this->requestBody    = $requestBody;
		$this->requestLength  = 0;
		$this->username     = null;
		$this->password     = null;
		$this->acceptType   = 'application/json';
		$this->responseBody   = null;
		$this->responseInfo   = null;
		
		if ($this->requestBody !== null)
		{
		  $this->buildPostBody();
		}
	}
	
	public function flush ()
	{
		$this->requestBody    = null;
		$this->requestLength  = 0;
		$this->verb       = 'GET';
		$this->responseBody   = null;
		$this->responseInfo   = null;
	}
	
	public function execute ()
	{
		$ch = curl_init();
		$this->setAuth($ch);
		
		try
		{
		  switch (strtoupper($this->verb))
		  {
		    case 'GET':
		      $this->executeGet($ch);
		      break;
		    case 'POST':
		      $this->executePost($ch);
		      break;
		    case 'PUT':
		      $this->executePut($ch);
		      break;
		    case 'DELETE':
		      $this->executeDelete($ch);
		      break;
		    default:
		      throw new InvalidArgumentException('Current verb (' . $this->verb . ') is an invalid REST verb.');
		  }
		}
		catch (InvalidArgumentException $e)
		{
		  curl_close($ch);
		  throw $e;
		}
		catch (Exception $e)
		{
		  curl_close($ch);
		  throw $e;
		}
	
	}
	
	public function buildPostBody ($data = null)
	{
		$data = ($data !== null) ? $data : $this->requestBody;
		
		if (!is_array($data))
		{
		  throw new InvalidArgumentException('Invalid data input for postBody.  Array expected');
		}
		
		$data = http_build_query($data, '', '&');
		$this->requestBody = $data;
	}
	
	protected function executeGet ($ch)
	{   
		$this->doExecute($ch);  
	}
	
	protected function executePost ($ch)
	{
		if (!is_string($this->requestBody))
		{
		  $this->buildPostBody();
		}
		
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $this->requestBody);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
		
		$this->doExecute($ch);  
	}
	
	protected function executePut ($ch)
	{
		if (!is_string($this->requestBody))
		{
		  $this->buildPostBody();
		}
		
		$this->requestLength = strlen($this->requestBody);
		
		$fh = fopen('php://memory', 'rw');
		fwrite($fh, $this->requestBody);
		rewind($fh);
		
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fh);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, $this->requestLength);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, true);
		
		$this->doExecute($ch);
		
		fclose($fh);
	}
	
	protected function executeDelete ($ch)
	{
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'DELETE');
		
		$this->doExecute($ch);
	}
	
	protected function doExecute (&$curlHandle)
	{
		$this->setCurlOpts($curlHandle);
		$this->responseBody = curl_exec($curlHandle);
		$this->responseInfo = curl_getinfo($curlHandle);
		
		curl_close($curlHandle);
	}
	
	protected function setCurlOpts (&$curlHandle)
	{
		curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
		curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_URL, $this->url);
		curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
		if( isset( $_SESSION['login_token'] ) ){
		  curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array (
		  'Accept: ' . $this->acceptType,
		  'X-Pipejump-Auth: ' . $_SESSION['login_token']));
		}else {
		  curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array ('Accept: ' . $this->acceptType));
		}
	}
	
	protected function setAuth (&$curlHandle)
	{
		if ($this->username !== null && $this->password !== null)
		{
		  curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_DIGEST);
		  curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this->username . ':' . $this->password);
		}
	}
	
	public function getAcceptType ()
	{
		return $this->acceptType;
	} 
	
	public function setAcceptType ($acceptType)
	{
		$this->acceptType = $acceptType;
	} 
	
	public function getPassword ()
	{
		return $this->password;
	} 
	
	public function setPassword ($password)
	{
		$this->password = $password;
	} 
	
	public function getResponseBody ()
	{
		return $this->responseBody;
	} 
	
	public function getResponseInfo ()
	{
		return $this->responseInfo;
	} 
	
	public function getUrl ()
	{
		return $this->url;
	} 
	
	public function setUrl ($url)
	{
		$this->url = $url;
	} 
	
	public function getUsername ()
	{
		return $this->username;
	} 
	
	public function setUsername ($username)
	{
		$this->username = $username;
	} 
	
	public function getVerb ()
	{
		return $this->verb;
	} 
	
	public function setVerb ($verb)
	{
		$this->verb = $verb;
	} 
}	
?>