PHP CURL DELETE request

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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?

Answers

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;
}

Saturday, September 24, 2022

feenberg-0e689c81db5f

Solved this by setting some other curl options:

$ch = curl_init($link);
$headers = array('Authorization: Bearer ' . $authToken);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$data = "state=on";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$response = curl_exec($ch);

$link is https://api.lifx.com/v1beta1/lights/all/power

$authToken is my api key

Sunday, September 25, 2022

deft_code

Looks like there's nothing wrong with your code. If you're using a shared hosting provider, ask them to open up outbound TCP port 7899.

Friday, August 26, 2022

alexander_v._ilyin

It turns out that the API I was accessing required a User-Agent for all requests, but did not provide any information to indicate such.

Is this a common thing? I can't find any other examples of anyone else doing this other than http://developer.github.com/v3/#user-agent-required

I was able to get things working just fine by adding

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "User-Agent: Some-Agent/1.0");

Thursday, October 6, 2022

stevendesu

CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS as the name suggests, is for the body (payload) of a POST request. For GET requests, the payload is part of the URL in the form of a query string.

In your case, you need to construct the URL with the arguments you need to send (if any), and remove the other options to cURL.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $this->service_url.'user/'.$id_user);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

//$body = '{}';
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET"); 
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$body);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

frank_wiles

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