Making a PUT request with PHP and CURL

First of all I'm working based on the following assumption: according to the REST architecture you can use PUT to create a new resource, in my case a file with additional informations provided by the user.

If this concept is not correct please let me know so I don't ask an incorrect question from the architectural point of view.

I see there are two things related to PUT request using CURL.

With the following method you can send an array of values just like a normal POST request.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");

and using this:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);

a file can be uploaded.

    $post_params['name'] = urlencode('Test User');
    $post_params['file'] = '@'.'/tmp/never_ending_progress_bar2.gif';