Question

I am using PHP 5.3.6 and it seems I am unable to make a PUT request using CURL for PUTting just a string.

function put_data($url, $data)
{   
  $useragent="SimpleAgent-1.0";
  $fh = fopen('php://memory', 'rw');
  fwrite($fh, $data);
  rewind($fh);$ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fh);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, strlen($data));
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
  $result = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  fclose($fh);

  return $result;
}

Here, $data is the string that I want to PUT.
Doesn’t work and returns the following error:

500 Internal Server Error The server has either erred or is incapable
of performing the requested operation.

expected string or buffer

Answer 1

I am only able to pass the array as a data with the versions I am using. So this is what I am doing now:

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $curl_cookie);
$arr = array();
if (isset($data)) {
    $arr['my_data'] = $data;
}

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($arr));
curl_exec($ch);