How to access POST data in PHP?

Question

I need to write a PHP page which would accept an XML document sent over a POST request like this:

POST /mypage.php HTTP/1.1
Host: myhost.com
Content-Type: ap         


        

Answer 1

Read from php://input. For example, you could use:

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

or

$rootNode = simplexml_load_file('php://input');

The alternative, using $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA, works, too - but it's slower and needs the PHP configuration always_populate_raw_post_data.

Answer 2

You probably want to use the PHP input. Something like

$postText = trim(file_get_contents('php://input'));

Answer 3

If you use print_r($_POST); you will be able to see what you got. Unless i'm missing something... Edit: nvm, totaly forgot about Raw Data :/

Answer 4

Any of these would work:

$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA variable or the php://input stream.

However, for the

$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA variable

to work, you might need to change .ini setting in your configuration file

Answer 5

Try the $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA variable or the php://input stream.

Answer 6

http://us.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.httprawpostdata.php

$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA should be available assuming the content-type of the request was not multipart/form-data