So Phil Sturgeon tweeted that he was looking for a Mock HTTP server with some simple functionality. This sounded like a fun and useful project and it seemed that there was nothing like it on Packagist. So I implemented it =)

Github repo: https://github.com/phpixie/illusion
Packagist: https://packagist.org/packages/phpixie/illusion

Usage is as simple as can be:

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//Set up client
$illusion = \PHPixie\Illusion::start($port = 4747);

//Set up a route and response and get a URL
$url = $illusion->route('/pixie/fairy', 'Trixie');

//And now:
echo file_get_contents($url); // 'Trixie'

//Also with HTTP method and headers support 
$headers = array('Content-Type: text/plain');
$url = $illusion->route('/pixie', 'PHPixie', 'GET', $headers);

 

It’s simple like that, and it also helped me brush up my socketing skills ^__^

P.S. use this composer.json to try it out:

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{
        "require":{
                "phpixie/illusion": "dev-master"
        }
}