ID: 37681
Comment by: cyberspice at cyberspice dot org dot uk
Reported By: f_kereki at cs dot com dot uy
Status: Open
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Operating System: SUSE 10.0
PHP Version: 5.1.4
New Comment:
I'd like to take this on. I too have come up against a similar issue
and I know of another developer who would be appreciative of it.
So I propose I make a patch that adds support for PUT, DELETE and HEAD
(for completeness) super globals.
Per RFC 2616 PUT is similar to post and can have data both in the URI
and the body of the request. DELETE and HEAD are like GET. Since
there
is already support for POST data in the sapi code and php_variables.c
has treat_data() for handling GET. It seems it should be relatively
simple to extend for the new variables.
What do you think?
Previous Comments:
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[2006-06-03 13:43:51] f_kereki at cs dot com dot uy
I'm coding a Service Oriented system, and according to REST principles,
I should be able to call a service with a PUT or DELETE method.
For example, using AJAX, in JavaScript I would write something like:
objeto= new XMLHttpRequest();
objeto.open("PUT", "my_own_service.php", true);
objeto.setRequestHeader("Content-Type",
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8");
objeto.onreadystatechange= some_function_of_mine;
objeto.send("a_string_like_field=value&field2=value2");
but then, my_own_service.php would have no way of getting to the PUT
parameters! With POST or GET methods, you can use the $_POST and $_GET
(and even $_REQUEST) arrays, but there are no $_PUT or $_DELETE
equivalent arrays.
Note, however, that this is *not* just an AJAX problem; if you require
a PHP service from within another PHP service, you would code something
like:
$ch= curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "my_own_service.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
"a_string_like_field=value&field2=value2");
$result= curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
Of course, this points out yet ANOTHER problem... there is no
CURLOPT_PUTFIELDS! Since the format is the same, I assume my way should
work, but I cannot even get to test it until I have a way of getting to
the PUT parameters from within PHP.
So, to resume it all, it seems to me:
* there should be $_PUT and $_DELETE arrays
* curl should support CURLOPT_PUTFIELDS, *or* make it clearer that
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is to be used.
Hope I was clearer this time!
Best regards,
Federico Kereki
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[2006-06-02 19:28:33] [email protected]
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[2006-06-02 17:12:29] f_kereki at cs dot com dot uy
Description:
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When coding Web Services according to REST ideas, there is no way to
get PUT or DELETE parameters -- something like $_GET or $_POST is
needed. You can invoke a service using curl, but only GET and POST can
be used; if you use PUT or DELETE you cannot get the parameters in PHP.
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