How to perform a cURL DELETE request in PHP?

To perform a cURL DELETE request in PHP, you can use the following code:

// URL of the endpoint you want to send the DELETE request to
$url = "https://api.example.com/endpoint";

// Initialize cURL session
$curl = curl_init();

// Set the cURL options
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "DELETE");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Execute cURL request
$response = curl_exec($curl);

// Get the HTTP response code
$responseCode = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

// Close cURL session
curl_close($curl);

// Handle the response
if ($responseCode == 200) {
    // Request was successful
    echo "DELETE request successful!";
} else {
    // Request failed
    echo "DELETE request failed with response code: " . $responseCode;
}

In the above code, you set the URL of the endpoint you want to send the DELETE request to using curl_setopt() function with CURLOPT_URL. You then set the request type to DELETE using curl_setopt() function with CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST. Next, you set CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER to true to retrieve the response instead of printing it directly.

After executing the cURL request using curl_exec(), you can extract the HTTP response code using curl_getinfo() with CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE.

Finally, you can close the cURL session with curl_close() and handle the response according to the HTTP response code.