How to start a GET/POST/PUT/DELETE request and judge request type in PHP?

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_ini         


        

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/