what is “php://input”? It mainly seen in webservice

Question

What is the relevance of php://input in the following snippet, and what is it used for?

$json_string = GPTake(array(\'json_string\'));
$handle = fop         


        

Answer 1

php:// is a scheme wrapper around various input/output streams that PHP supports. You can read up for here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/wrappers.php.php.

Specifically, php://input allows you to read the input stream directly.