Put request using curl

Question

after I succeeded in making a POST request and grab the values in the web service i'm building. I'm facing a problem regarding the Put Request. I managed to make the Put Request and I sent an array containing name and id for the update purpose this way:

curl_setopt($ic, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));

But when I try to grab the id sent using $_POST['id'] I get the undefined index error, I printed_r($_POST) and it's empty. Now I dont't believe there is a super global array for PUT like for POST and even if it exists , I don't think there is :

curl_setopt($ic, CURLOPT_PUTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));

in curl have you even been through a similar error? any idea?

To take a look at my previous post concerning the post request to have a better understanding of what I'm trying to do , it's here

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 18 '14 at 10:33

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Try this

curl_setopt($ic, CURLOPT_PUTFIELDS, json_encode($data));

and take it by

$array_get = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'));

answered Dec 18 '14 at 10:33

tesst

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what do you mean by 'php://input' ?? – arakibi Dec 18 '14 at 10:38
@monstr3 you can set second parameter to TRUE then you can get array eg.json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'),TRUE); – munsifali Dec 18 '14 at 11:14
Notice: Use of undefined constant CURLOPT_PUTFIELDS - assumed 'CURLOPT_PUTFIELDS' This is what I get ... – arakibi Dec 18 '14 at 11:57

munsifali · Answer 2 · 2014-12-18T11:19:53.620

use this CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST =PUT and then just set values with CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS

or you can use custom header CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER eg.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('X-HTTP-Method-Override: PUT'));

The script below demonstrates how you make a PUT request.

$ch = curl_init();    

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "url");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT"); // note the PUT here

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(                                                                          
    'Content-Type: application/json',                                                                                
    'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string)                                                                       
));       

// execute the request

$output = curl_exec($ch);

// close curl resource to free up system resources

curl_close($ch);

hey thanks for your help , I'm not having problem with making the Put request rather with how to get values passed in the other side ... — arakibi, Dec 18 '14 at 11:55

Ateoa · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-18T10:43:51.443

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The $_POST only for method=post;

You use method=put, so the $_POST is empty.

You can get the putdata like this:

$_PUT = array();
if('PUT' == $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']){
    parse_str(file_get_contents('php://input'), $_PUT);
}

edited Dec 18 '14 at 10:43

answered Dec 18 '14 at 10:35

Ateoa

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yeah I know , and this should not be an answer for my issue ;) – arakibi Dec 18 '14 at 10:40
Notice: Use of undefined constant CURLOPT_PUTFIELDS - assumed 'CURLOPT_PUTFIELDS' This is what I get ... – arakibi Dec 18 '14 at 12:25

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 14 '18 at 01:00

This is the secret to sending a PUT request:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);  // <-- NOTE this is POST
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT"); // <-- NOTE this is PUT

A full example:

$vals = array("email" => "hi@example.com", "phone" => "12345");
$jsonData = json_encode($vals);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);  // <-- NOTE this
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT"); // <-- NOTE this

//We want the result / output returned.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    'Content-Type:application/json',
    'Content-Length:' . strlen($jsonData),
    'X-Apikey:Any_other_header_value_goes_here'
));

//Our fields.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $jsonData);

//Execute the request.
$response = curl_exec($ch);

echo $response;

Put request using curl

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