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How do I send a PUT request with JSON body with cURL?

I have this code to send a PUT request:

$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PUT, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_BODY, json_encode($result));

curl_exec($curl);

But that doesn't work, because CURLOPT_BODY does not exist. But, how do I add a body to my PUT request? I tried CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, but that transforms my call into a POST (and I really do need a PUT).

Solution

  • cURL cannot inherently do a PUT request.

    You need to do the following:

    $curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($result));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($curl);