Overview

Requirements

1. PHP 7.4
2. To use the PHP stream handler, allow_url_fopen must be enabled in your system's php.ini.
3. To use the cURL handler, you must have cURL >= 7.34.0 compiled with OpenSSL and zlib.

Support for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 depends on the PHP cURL extension and the linked runtime libcurl. HTTP/2 requires libcurl 7.65.2 or higher built with HTTP/2 support (nghttp2). HTTP/3 requires PHP to expose cURL's HTTP/3 constants, libcurl 7.88.0 or higher, and runtime libcurl reporting the CURL_VERSION_HTTP3 feature. Many libcurl builds do not enable HTTP/3 unless an HTTP/3 backend is selected at build time.

Installation

The recommended way to install Guzzle is with Composer. Composer is a dependency management tool for PHP that allows you to declare the dependencies your project needs and installs them into your project.

# Install Composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

You can add Guzzle as a dependency using Composer:

composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle:^8.0

Alternatively, you can specify Guzzle as a dependency in your project's existing composer.json file:

{
  "require": {
     "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^8.0"
  }
}

After installing, you need to require Composer's autoloader:

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

You can find out more on how to install Composer, configure autoloading, and other best-practices for defining dependencies at getcomposer.org.

Upgrading

The git repository contains an upgrade guide that details what changed between the major versions.

Contributing

Guidelines

1. Guzzle utilizes PSR-1, PSR-2, PSR-4, and PSR-7.
2. Guzzle is meant to be lean and fast with very few dependencies. This means that not every feature request will be accepted.
3. Guzzle has a minimum PHP version requirement of PHP 7.4. Pull requests must not require a PHP version greater than PHP 7.4 unless the feature is only utilized conditionally and the file can be parsed by PHP 7.4.
4. All pull requests must include unit tests to ensure the change works as expected and to prevent regressions.

Running the tests

In order to contribute, you'll need to checkout the source from GitHub and install Guzzle's dependencies using Composer:

git clone https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle.git
cd guzzle && composer install

Guzzle is unit tested with PHPUnit:

vendor/bin/phpunit

[!NOTE] You'll need Node.js ^20.19 || ^22.13 || >=24 available as node in order to perform integration tests on Guzzle's HTTP handlers.

Reporting a security vulnerability

If you discover a security vulnerability within this package, please send an email to [email protected]. All security vulnerabilities will be promptly addressed. Please do not disclose security-related issues publicly until a fix has been announced. Please see the Security Policy for more information.