PHP CURL DELETE request
curl, http, php, request
Solution
I finally solved this myself. If anyone else is having this problem, here is my solution:
I created a new method:
public function curl_del($path)
{
$url = $this->__url.$path;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "DELETE");
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
return $result;
}
Update 2
Since this seems to help some people, here is my final curl DELETE method, which returns the HTTP response in JSON decoded object:
/**
* @desc Do a DELETE request with cURL
*
* @param string $path path that goes after the URL fx. "/user/login"
* @param array $json If you need to send some json with your request.
* For me delete requests are always blank
* @return Obj $result HTTP response from REST interface in JSON decoded.
*/
public function curl_del($path, $json = '')
{
$url = $this->__url.$path;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "DELETE");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$result = json_decode($result);
curl_close($ch);
return $result;
}
Problem
I'm trying to do a DELETE http request using PHP and cURL. I have read how to do it many places, but nothing seems to work for me. This is how I do it: ``` public function curl_req($path,$json,$req) { $ch = curl_init($this->__url.$path); $data = json_encode($json); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $req); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json','Content-Length: ' . strlen($data))); $result = curl_exec($ch); $result = json_decode($result); return $result; } ``` I then go ahead and use my function: ``` public function deleteUser($extid) { $path = "/rest/user/".$extid."/;token=".$this->__token; $result = $this->curl_req($path,"","DELETE"); return $result; } ``` This gives me HTTP internal server ERROR. In my other functions using the same curl_req method with GET and POST, everything goes well. So what am I doing wrong?