(PECL pecl_http >= 0.10.0)
http_get_request_body — Get request body as string
Get the raw request body (e.g. POST or PUT data).
This function can not be used after http_get_request_body_stream() if the request method was another than POST.
Returns the raw request body as string on success or NULL on failure.
It seems that there is some weird behavior when using http_get_request_body() with fopen('php://input'). Specifically, reading the input with the fopen('php://input') routine before calling http_get_request_body() on a PUT HTTP request.
Here are some examples:
A POST request:
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PUT http://example.com/requestbodytest.php HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: 58
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<body>test</body>
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with the following script:
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<?php
$body = '';
$fh = @fopen('php://input', 'r');
if ($fh)
{
while (!feof($fh))
{
$s = fread($fh, 1024);
if (is_string($s))
{
$body .= $s;
}
}
fclose($fh);
}
print("-------------- PHP Input Stream ----------------\n$body\n\n");
$body2 = http_get_request_body();
print("---------- http_get_request_body() -------------\n$body2\n\n");
?>
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outputs this:
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-------------- PHP Input Stream ----------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<body>test</body>
---------- http_get_request_body() -------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<body>test</body>
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The same request to the same script using an HTTP PUT request, however, outputs this:
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-------------- PHP Input Stream ----------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<body>test</body>
---------- http_get_request_body() -------------
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It seems a valid workaround is to put a call to http_get_request_body() to cache the body content before an expected read to php://input (i.e. simply calling the function without manually storing the result caches the content for subsequent calls).
Like php://input and http_get_request_body_stream(), http_get_request_body() doesn't seem to work with enctype="multipart/form-data".
For those of you without the HTTP extension, try:
<?php
$body = @file_get_contents('php://input');
?>