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SharePoint -- Recycle File (Move File to Recycle Bin)

Moves the file to the Recycle Bin and returns the identifier of the new Recycle Bin item.

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<?php

$success = 0;

// This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$http = new COM("Chilkat.Http");

// If SharePoint Windows classic authentication is used, then set the 
// Login, Password, LoginDomain, and NtlmAuth properties.
$http->Login = 'SHAREPOINT_USERNAME';
$http->Password = 'SHAREPOINT_PASSWORD';
$http->LoginDomain = 'SHAREPOINT_NTLM_DOMAIN';
$http->NtlmAuth = 1;

// The more common case is to use SharePoint Online authentication (via the SPOIDCRL cookie).
// If so, do not set Login, Password, LoginDomain, and NtlmAuth, and instead
// establish the cookie as shown at SharePoint Online Authentication

$req = new COM("Chilkat.HttpRequest");
$req->HttpVerb = 'POST';
$req->Path = '/_api/web/GetFileByServerRelativeUrl('/ChilkatDocLibrary/sample.docx')/recycle';

// We must add a form digest value in the X-RequestDigest header field.
// See this example for details on
// how to get (and cache) a form digest value
$req->AddHeader('X-RequestDigest','SHAREPOINT_FORM_DIGEST');

// Send the request to move the file to the recycle bin.
$bUseTls = 1;
$resp = new COM("Chilkat.HttpResponse");
$success = $http->HttpSReq('SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN',443,$bUseTls,$req,$resp);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $http->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$xml = new COM("Chilkat.Xml");
$xml->LoadXml($resp->BodyStr);

// A successful response will return the 200 status code.
if ($resp->StatusCode != 200) {
    print 'Response status code = ' . $resp->StatusCode . "\n";
    print $xml->getXml() . "\n";
    print 'Failed' . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Show the XML response.
print $xml->getXml() . "\n";

// The GUID (identifier) of the item in the recycle bin is just the content
// of the single-node XML that is returned:
$guid = $xml->Content;
print 'GUID of recycle item = ' . $guid . "\n";

print 'Success.' . "\n";

// A successful XML response looks like this:

// <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
// <d:Recycle xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices"
//  xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata"
//  xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss"
//  xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
//  m:type="Edm.Guid">
//     63b9924d-e9c1-4d7b-b1c2-e921ad85aa1c
// </d:Recycle>

?>