Codeigniter Rest Server Delete Method Example

delete_method.php

<?php 
 public function users_delete()
    {
        $id = (int) $this->get('id');
        $group = (int) $this->delete('group');
        $group_2 = (int) $this->delete('group_2');

        echo "id : ".$id.'<BR/>';
        echo "group : ".$group.'<BR/>';
        echo "group 2 : ".$group_2.'<BR/>';
        exit;

        // Validate the id.
        if ($id <= 0)
        {
            // Set the response and exit
            $this->response(NULL, REST_Controller::HTTP_BAD_REQUEST); // BAD_REQUEST (400) being the HTTP response code
        }

        // $this->some_model->delete_something($id);
        $message = [
            'id' => $id,
            'message' => 'Deleted the resource'
        ];

        $this->set_response($message, REST_Controller::HTTP_NO_CONTENT); // NO_CONTENT (204) being the HTTP response code
    }

test.php

<?php

public function test()
	{
		$this->load->helper('url');
		$ch = curl_init();

		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,site_url('api/example/users/id/2'));
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "DELETE");
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
			"group=3&group_2=1"); // look at this section its important
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'));


// receive server response ...
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

		$server_output = curl_exec ($ch);

		curl_close ($ch);

		echo $server_output;

	}

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