Does $input support POST/PUT body contents?

[chrizz]

hey there,

I was wondering what the best approach looks like to access the input (entity) body from a POST or PUT request. I didn't find anything in the docs if $input supports these. If anyone has dealt with this problem in the past I'd be happy to hear about your solutions

Thanks & cheers!

[teppo]

I think you're looking for something along these lines:

$data = file_get_contents('php://input');

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8945879/how-to-get-body-of-a-post-in-php for more details. And no, to my best understanding this is not something that $input API var handles

[LostKobrakai]

$input is a wrapper for superglobals like $_POST and both do not support reading the request body.

[gebeer]

In the first post of my REST API tutorial I link to clsource's REST helper class. You could use that one or lend some code from it. 

[chrizz]

thanks everyone for clarification. It was obvious as it wasn't mentioned in the documentation but sometimes asking for help offer new implementation approaches :))