Question

I never see how is PUT/DELETE request sent.

How to do it in PHP?

I know how to send a GET/POST request with curl:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookieFile);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE,$cookieFile);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch,   CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,   FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4);

But how to do PUT/DELETE request?

Answer 1

For DELETE use curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'DELETE');
For PUT use curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, true);

An alternative that doesn’t rely on cURL being installed would be to use file_get_contents with a custom HTTP stream context.

$result = file_get_contents(
    'http://example.com/submit.php', 
    false, 
    stream_context_create(array(
        'http' => array(
            'method' => 'DELETE' 
        )
    ))
);

Check out these two articles on doing REST with PHP

• http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/create-a-rest-api-with-php/
• http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/making-restful-requests-in-php/