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Sefam
Sefam

Reputation: 1773

PUT requests and variables for API in PHP

I'm currently building an API, and I want to separate updating (Which I am using POST for) from creation (Which I want to use PUT for). This might seem like a dumb question, but how do I retrieve variables sent through PUT? There is no $_PUT array in PHP. I'm trying to send data with WFetch this way:

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n
\r\n
Name=Test\r\n

I've tried to look up how to use PUT, but I can't seem to figure it out.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3408

Answers (3)

justnajm
justnajm

Reputation: 4534

PHP put has given me tough time, this function will save someone's time:

function parsePutRequest()
    {
        // Fetch content and determine boundary
        $raw_data = file_get_contents('php://input');
        $boundary = substr($raw_data, 0, strpos($raw_data, "\r\n"));

    // Fetch each part
    $parts = array_slice(explode($boundary, $raw_data), 1);
    $data = array();

    foreach ($parts as $part) {
        // If this is the last part, break
        if ($part == "--\r\n") break; 

        // Separate content from headers
        $part = ltrim($part, "\r\n");
        list($raw_headers, $body) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $part, 2);

        // Parse the headers list
        $raw_headers = explode("\r\n", $raw_headers);
        $headers = array();
        foreach ($raw_headers as $header) {
            list($name, $value) = explode(':', $header);
            $headers[strtolower($name)] = ltrim($value, ' '); 
        } 

        // Parse the Content-Disposition to get the field name, etc.
        if (isset($headers['content-disposition'])) {
            $filename = null;
            preg_match(
                '/^(.+); *name="([^"]+)"(; *filename="([^"]+)")?/', 
                $headers['content-disposition'], 
                $matches
            );
            list(, $type, $name) = $matches;
            isset($matches[4]) and $filename = $matches[4]; 

            // handle your fields here
            switch ($name) {
                // this is a file upload
                case 'userfile':
                    file_put_contents($filename, $body);
                    break;

                // default for all other files is to populate $data
                default: 
                    $data[$name] = substr($body, 0, strlen($body) - 2);
                    break;
            } 
        }

    }
    return $data;
}

Upvotes: 1

Ahmad_Opera
Ahmad_Opera

Reputation: 1

Use $_REQUEST["your target"] to access data sent through PUT request

Upvotes: 0

keanpedersen
keanpedersen

Reputation: 50

Use the following to create the $_PUT array in PHP:

parse_str(file_get_contents('php://input'), $_PUT);

Now you can use $_PUT['Name'] to get "Test".

Upvotes: 0

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