如何在PHP API First App中处理PUT和DELETE HTTP请求？

Question

I am wanting to build an API first RESTful application in PHP. I have never attempted to do this so I have some questions about how to handle PUT and DELETE

So for an example if I have a API endpoint that updates a User profile, should I make it accept BOTH a POST and PUT Request?

If I was building a Client for my API as a Desktop app or iOS app, etc it would be easy to send a PUT request to my API but I plan to have a Web based app for my API as well.

So on my web based app, I would have an HTML Form to Update a User profile, this would then be sent as a POST as HTML Forms do not allow PUT requests.

Could someone with more experience with this explain the best way to handle my example scenario?

Would the proper way be to send my Form as a POST to my PHP script, then my PHP script would make a proper PUT request to my PHP API with cURL?

Answer 1

I would use GET POST PUT DELETE as they are described in HTTP. That's restful (in my opinion). As regular browser forms does not support this I would send the data via AJAX.

If you really need to use browser forms, maybe because javascript is not enabled, then using POST requests with a param like ?method sounds like a suitable solution - although I don't like it.