How to catch the HTTP POST request sent by a Shopify Webhook

Question

I\'m somewhat of a noob, and not afraid to admit that, I\'m working on this project as a learning experience to get better with php and serverside script/ing handling.

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Answer 1

Shopify webhook doesn't passed data using the common GET or POST request method. You can use the fopen() method in PHP and pass in the php://input stream.

Suppose you create a webhook for cart update and set URL http://example.com/cart_update_hook.php then put the following code in cart_update_hook.php to get the data sent by shopify webhook.