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Deividgp
Deividgp

Reputation: 86

Passing data via URL with a post request in Slim

I’m creating an API and I’m wondering if there is any way to pass data via an URL with a post method for example 

add?name={name}&age={age}…

I don’t have much experience with API development, but I remember this URL thingy worked in Spring Boot.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 772

Answers (2)

N'Bayramberdiyev
N'Bayramberdiyev

Reputation: 3620

First of all, create a route that handles POST HTTP requests without any query parameter.

$app->post('/add', function (Request $request, Response $response, array $args) {
    // get query parameters as an associative array
    $params = $request->getQueryParams();

    // return $params as a JSON data
    $response->getBody()->write(json_encode($params));
    return $response->withHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
});

Then, make a POST HTTP request to that route with your query parameters: /add?name=Foo&age=27.

Output:

{
    "name": "Foo",
    "age": "27"
}

Upvotes: 1

sebastian_t
sebastian_t

Reputation: 2879

You can pass data in URL like that in any type of HTTP Request. That said when using POST / PUT / PATCH I would recommend using JSON payload sent as Request Body.

If you want to read an argument in Slim

<?php
$app->get('/hello/{name}', function (Request $request, Response $response, array $args) {

    $name = $args['name'];

    // or
    $name = $request->getArgument('name');

    // When Request URL is
    // /hello/world?age=24
    // you can read the age argument as
    $name = $request->getArgument('age');

    // This behaviour is defined in PSR-7 and available across PHP frameworks

    return $response;
});

In plain PHP you can read an argument using superglobal $_GET or $_POST

<?php
$name = $_GET['age'];

Upvotes: 0

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