Question

I am developing restful services with PHP Cake. I have developed all get services. But I am stucked in post services.

Problem is that, I am unable to get post data. I am getting noting in $this->data

Here is code of one controller function.

function signin() {

    $this->view = 'Webservice.Webservice';
    $message = "Request Received";
    if (!empty($this->data)) {
        $message = "Request has data";
    }


     $this->set(compact('message'));
}

Here is my request data

POST http://localhost/blog/posts/signin HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Fiddler
Host: localhost
Content-Length: 25

username=abc&password=abc

Please help me out here.

Thanks,

Answer 1

Cake only populates the request data array by data sent to PHP that is prefixed with ‘data’.

POST your username and password like this, instead:

data[username]=abc&data[password]=abc

This will tell Cake to place it in $this->request->data.