Question

I’ve never used PHP but right now, I need to write a PHP file that displays in a log file the content of the body of a POST HTTP request.

I’ve read that you can access variables of the body via the _POST array.
Unfortunately, it seems to be empty, although I’m pretty sure there is stuff in my HTTP request’s body !

What should I use to be 100% sure of the content of my HTTP body ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

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

php://input allows you to read raw POST data. It is a less memory intensive alternative to $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA and does not need any special php.ini directives. php://input is not available with enctype=”multipart/form-data”.

^{(Source: http://php.net/wrappers.php)}