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:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($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?

To get an PUT request, you cant do $_PUT['var'], but: parse_str(file_get_contents('php://input'), $put_vars); — Strae
– Strae, Commented Jan 28, 2010 at 12:03

Gordon · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-26 09:09:33Z

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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

edited May 26, 2021 at 9:09

answered Jan 28, 2010 at 10:09

Gordon

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Yehor Over a year ago

It's working and I voted for that, but the drawback is that 'remote url opening ' via file_get_contents may be blocked in configuration and that has be taken into account

Gordon Over a year ago

@Ekonoval sure, just like it has to be taken into account that cURL might not be installed :)

UncaughtTypeError Over a year ago

FYI, links are no longer valid, ?s=restful returns no relevant results.

Pascal MARTIN · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-28 11:08:58Z

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Generally speaking, if you want to send some "non-GET" request, you'll often work with curl.

And you'll use the curl_setopt function to configure the request you're sending ; amongst the large amount of possible options, to change the request method, you'll be interested by at least those options (quoting) :

CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST : A custom request method to use instead of "GET" or "HEAD" when doing a HTTP request. This is useful for doing "DELETE" or other, more obscure HTTP requests.
CURLOPT_HTTPGET : TRUE to reset the HTTP request method to GET.
CURLOPT_POST : TRUE to do a regular HTTP POST.
CURLOPT_PUT : TRUE to HTTP PUT a file. The file to PUT must be set with CURLOPT_INFILE and CURLOPT_INFILESIZE.

Of course, curl_setopt is not the only function you'll use ; see the documentation page of curl_exec for an example of how to send a request with curl.

(Yes, that example is pretty simple, and sends a GET request -- but you should be able to build from there ;-) )

answered Jan 28, 2010 at 11:08

Pascal MARTIN

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user198729 Over a year ago

CURLOPT_POST is used to send GET/DELETE request,what about PUT/DELETE?

Pascal MARTIN Over a year ago

for PUT, you have CURLOPT_PUT, and for DELETE, it seems you'll have to use CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST

Gordon Over a year ago

Correct. That is what it says in the second article I've linked as well.

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