accessing DELETE from jquery in PHP

Question

If I am sending data from my ajax request as type:delete

How do I then access it on my php page instead of $_GET or $_POST

?

Answer 1

Using the other, oft-forgotten HTTP request methods is referred to as REST or a RESTful application.

Here's a PEAR module which gives you the ability to work with that: http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP%5FRequest/

Supports GET/POST/HEAD/TRACE/PUT/DELETE, Basic authentication, Proxy, Proxy Authentication, SSL, file uploads etc.

I found that on this page, which also discusses how to use it.

These functions might be of use too: HTTP extension

Answer 2

You can access the URI for a DELETE request just like any other request in the $_SERVER super global: $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

From there you can parse any parameters you've created. You might find the class created for the phprestsql project to be a useful reference.