Sending DELETE to API using PHP - php

Question

I am brand new to using an API outside of an API wrapper. I can access the API using
curl -u username:password https://company.c
om/api/v1/resources/xxxxxxx
That loads up all the information, but what I need to do is send a DELETE to the url based on an array of filenames; e.g. ['/js/jquery.js']. The name of the parameter is Files.
I already have in code the directory and file name variables.
$storageFilename = $directoryname . "/" . $asset->name;
Above returns the /directoryname/filename from the database.

Answer 1

To send an HTTP(S) DELETE using the cURL library in PHP:
$url = 'https://url_for_your_api';
//this is the data you will send with the DELETE
$fields = array(
'field1' => urlencode('data for field1'),
'field2' => urlencode('data for field2'),
'field3' => urlencode('data for field3')
);
/*ready the data in HTTP request format
*(like the querystring in an HTTP GET, after the '?') */
$fields_string = http_build_query($fields);
//open connection
$ch = curl_init();
/*if you need to do basic authentication use these lines,
*otherwise comment them out (like, if your authenticate to your API
*by sending information in the $fields, above. */
$username = 'your_username';
$password = 'your_password';
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ":" . $password);
/*end authentication*/
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'DELETE');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($fields));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);
/*unless you have installed root CAs you can't verify the remote server's
*certificate. Disable checking if this is suitable for your application*/
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
//perform the HTTP DELETE
$result = curl_exec($ch);
//close connection
curl_close($ch);
/* this answer builds on David Walsh's very good HTTP POST example at:
* http://davidwalsh.name/curl-post
* modified here to make it work for HTTPS and DELETE and Authentication */