drewm / mailchimp-api

            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, '');

            switch($http_verb) {

                case 'post':

                    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

                    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($args));

                    break;

                case 'get':

                    $query = http_build_query($args);

                    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'DELETE');

                    break;

                case 'patch':

                    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PATCH');

                    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($args));

                    break;

                case 'put':

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

                    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($args));

                    break;

                case 'put':

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

                    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($args)); 

                    break;

            }

            $response['body']    = curl_exec($ch);