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Sreehari
Sreehari

Reputation: 515

RESTFul web service with codeigniter

Can I user post method both for create and update?

I have tried "PUT" method for updating resources, but I am not getting the parameters on server side.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 788

Answers (2)

landons
landons

Reputation: 9547

Yes. Due to lack of consistent client implementations for PUT or DELETE methods, standard practice is to send a POST request and either A) use a query string parameter (i.e. ?_method=PUT) or B) send an X-METHOD-OVERRIDE header.

(Quick Google search returned this: http://www.endurasoft.com/Blog/post/X-HTTP-Method-Override.aspx)

You would probably need to extend the CI_Input class to know the difference between a create action and an update.

Upvotes: 0

Nelson
Nelson

Reputation: 1747

PUT isn't handled natively through PHP (i.e. $_PUT) nor through CodeIgniter. Two things to do off of the top of my head: 1) Grab the PUT variables youreself or 2) Use Phil Sturgeon's REST library.

//put an associative array into $post_vars variable
parse_str(file_get_contents("php://input"),$post_vars);

Source: http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2008/accessing-incoming-put-data-from-php

However, since you are working with CodeIgniter, you should use Phil Sturgeon's library if you can't find a genuine reason not to. It's tried, true, and tested and handles all of the HTTP verbs.

https://github.com/philsturgeon/codeigniter-restserver

Upvotes: 1

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