CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phpslim
DroidOS
DroidOS

Reputation: 8880

Slim Framework - get all headers

I discovered Slim yesterday and really like it. I have run into some minor issues. Here is one:

I would like to send out extra headers from my jQuery UI app to my Slim REST API. Not a problem at the jQuery end- $.ajax provides that capability. However, I thought I would write up a small Slim app to test out Slim's own ability to give me access to all request headers. Here is that app

function indexFunction()
{
 global $app;
 $headers = $app->request->headers;
echo json_encode($headers);
}

header('Content-type:text/plain');
$app = new \Slim\Slim();
$app->get("/",'indexFunction');
$app->run();

I opened DHC in Chrome and fired off a GET request

http://ipaddr/slimrestapi

after adding the header xhash = abc123

For good measure I started up Fiddler and watched the traffic as I sent out that request. Fiddler faithfully reported the following headers

Host: ipaddr
Connection: keep-alive
xhash: abc123
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,de;q=0.6,fr;q=0.4

However, the results echoed back by slim are an empty JSON object, {}.

Am I misunderstanding something here or is there a bug in Slim? I'd much appreciate any help.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 9785

Answers (1)

Tuim
Tuim

Reputation: 2511

The headers in Slim are an instance of Slim\Helper\Set You can get the content as you want with the all() function

json_encode($app->request()->headers()->all());

Or in a full example

$app->get('/', function() use ($app) {
    echo json_encode($app->request()->headers()->all());
    echo $app->request()->headers()->get('xhash');
});

The example also shows how you can avoid using that global statement. This is a good read on that subject http://tomnomnom.com/posts/why-global-state-is-the-devil-and-how-to-avoid-using-it

Upvotes: 6

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