[RESOLVED] How to do a PUT command for an API?

[curtay]

I'm trying to use a REST API. From the API documentation:

A sample XML request is shown below:
PUT: https://api.thesitethatimusing
Authorization: mytokeniputhere
Accept: application/xml
Host: api.thesitethatimusing
Content-Length: 193
<contentload>
<path>http://blah</path>
<type>8</type>
</contentload>

But this is not PHP code. How do I send this request in PHP?
Is there a PUT command in PHP?

[NogDog]

You can do it via the cURL functions.

[curtay]

Any exmaple code? Do I use CURLOPT_POST? CURLOPT_PUT? How do I send the XML? How do I send the "Authorization" token to the API?

[CaptainSessa]

1.) Please think a tiny bit before posting: Since you need PUT, you will not use the _POST, but the _PUT option.

2.) How authentication is done depends on the REST-API you are trying to use.. Loads of sites use oAuth, just use google to find some tutorials on how to do the authorization.

[curtay]

It's not oAuth or anything, I just need to pass a parameter called "Authorization" and use my token.

I used to have:
file_get_contents("http://api.thesitewiththeapi.com?action=contentload&Authorization=4829234&type=8&path=http://myfile");

And it worked fine and it took me 5 minutes to code. But they changed the API and it doesn't work anymore and I apparently have to use cURL now. I've already spent more than all day studying cURL documentation and getting nowhere. I just need to convert the above line to cURL. Insead of url paramaters I apparently have to use XML or JSON.

[NogDog]

This looks like a pretty good summary of the cURL part: http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives...quests-in-php/ . Basically, for the PUT method, it creates a file handle in memory where you would (temporarily) store your data (XML, JSON, whatever), then access via the curl_setopt() functions as demonstrated in the PUT example there.

[curtay]

Thanks nogdog that helped me finally figure it out.

Here's my code since a lot of people are probably going to google this and land here. This is bascially how to send XML to an API.

        $headers = array(
            "Authorization: TOK:$token",
            "Accept: application/xml",
            "Content-Type: application/xml",
            "Host: $api_host"
        );

        $file = fopen('php://memory', 'rw');
        fwrite($file, $xml);
        rewind($file);

        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, strlen($xml));
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $file);
        $result = curl_exec($ch);
        
        curl_close($ch);
        fclose($file);