Use curl everywhere for speed improvements

[nicoverbruggen]

file_get_contents is used to fetch some data. If we replace it with curl, we can get some serious speed improvements.

http://mdb9.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/file_get_contents-vs-curl-what-has-better-performance/

Up to 30% (!) speed improvements.

[pietercolpaert]

Why not use https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle? More high level library

[bramdevries]

Why not switch to using my wrapper around the iRail api? It uses Guzzle and supports all of the API endpoints. https://github.com/bramdevries/irail-php

[pietercolpaert]

Because the intention is to make this the main scraper and API. We will deprecate the other API at data.irail.be and api.irail.be. This can thus not have another API as a requirement :)

[bramdevries]

But currently the api.irail.be is still used throughout the application so I don't see any harm to switch it now and once you have the API set up in this repository we can switch it again.

[pietercolpaert]

I'd rather do the switch immediately than first changing it to to something intermediate. I'll work on it before the end of August!

[Tjoosten]

Any update on this?

[pietercolpaert]

Nope... You can tackle this one if you want!

[Tjoosten]

i will try. But can you assist me?

[pietercolpaert]

Guzzle now used

[Tjoosten]

@pietercolpaert I see that Guzzle is used. But there a still file_get_content & curl attributes in the code. Maybe we can reopen it. And close it again when all the attributes are converted.