How can I run this REST API call from PHP?

Question

I'm currently building a project based on the Parse.com backend that includes uploading files. Users can upload files and then access a list of these/download them, this all works fine. However, I'm not sure how to implement the command to delete an upload. From the Parse.com forums as well as the Parse support document, the call is:

curl -X DELETE \
    -H "X-Parse-Application-Id: <YOUR_APPLICATION_ID>" \
    -H "X-Parse-Master-Key: <YOUR_MASTER_KEY>" \
    https://api.parse.com/1/files/<FILE_NAME>

I've had a bit of a look online but the only curl commands I can find to execute commands is curl_setopt. I imagine the above needs to be converted, can anybody help with this or point me in the right direction?

So basically I need to be able to press a button on a website (through PHP) and have it run the above command.

Thanks in advance

You can use PHP's cURL library to do this. If you are interested, I have actually implemented a lightweight REST client class based on cURL. You are free to use it. Here is the link: github.com/mikecbrant/php-rest-client — Mike Brant
– Mike Brant, Commented Apr 17, 2014 at 20:30

hindmost · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-18 06:26:54Z

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According to given info you have to set custom request method 'DELETE' (by CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST option) as well as custom headers (by CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER option).

So the code should look like this:

$options = array(
    CURLOPT_NOBODY => 0,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
    CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'DELETE',
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
        'X-Parse-Application-Id: <YOUR_APPLICATION_ID>',
        'X-Parse-Master-Key: <YOUR_MASTER_KEY',
    ),
    CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.parse.com/1/files/<FILE_NAME>',
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
echo $response;

edited Apr 18, 2014 at 6:26

answered Apr 17, 2014 at 20:37

hindmost

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4 Comments

theuseduser Over a year ago

Hi, Thank you very much for the response. I'll try it out in a bit. For now I was looking at AJAX, and have the following code, but when I run it nothing happens. Is this do you think an acceptable way of doing of or will I need to do it in PHP? pastie.org/private/tcse5mfx4yodcptelznbw

inf3rno Over a year ago

then probably your account is not okay... try it out with a rest client addon first

hindmost Over a year ago

@theuseduser I'm not familiar with parse.com API. I just gave answer to your question in CURL terms.

theuseduser Over a year ago

after much playing around, I've finally managed to get it to work, thank you very much hindmost!!

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