title: How to write PHP curl DELETE request
body: <p>I'm referencing DigitalOcean's API docs, and they give the following example on how to delete a droplet here:</p>
  
  <pre><code>curl -X DELETE -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer API_TOKEN" "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets/[DROPLET_ID]"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I write this in PHP curl?</p>
  
  <p>I currently have this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ch = curl_init('https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets/18160706');
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
      'Authorization: Bearer MY_API_TOKEN')
  );
  
  $result = curl_exec($ch);
  echo $result;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But that is not deleting my droplet and is returning (Yes, the droplet id is correct):</p>
  
  <pre><code>{"id":"not_found","message":"The resource you were accessing could not be found."}1
  </code></pre>