PUT request body params

[qwertytest]

I’m having troubles getting the body params parsed from a PUT request.
I’ve read some issues/pull on github, but finally I got no solution.
Any workaround to get this “fixed”? Shoul I set any specific content type
or somehow simulate a POST? Many thanks in advance.

I’m using latest slim.

[odan]

Do you have an example?

Have you tried this?

Slim v3 PUT method and retrieve POST data

I have added route to update emails in a database which uses PUT method $app->put('/notifications/{email}', 'add_email_address'); and function for it looks like: function add_email_address($request, $response, $args) { $email = $args['email']; $addon_email = $request->getParam('addon_email', null); echo "ADD/UPDATE $email with $addon_email"; } somehow on testing PUT method with a form input post addon_email = test@null.com retrieved value for $addon_email is empty Any tips…

[qwertytest]

I’ve tried setting content type to: application/x-www-form-urlencoded, then:

$bodyParams = $request->getParsedBody();
var_dump($bodyParams[‘myParam’]);

but I cannot access myParam inside the array, because it is sorrounded with encoding…

[odan]

Aha you are trying the get POST variables from a PUT request.

In Slim 3 the POST variables are only parsed if the request

1. method is POST and
2. the media type is: ‘application/x-www-form-urlencoded’ or ‘multipart/form-data’.

Let’s try this (not tested):

$parsedBody = $request->getParsedBody();
parse_str($parsedBody, $postData);

print_r($postData);

PS: According to the HTTP specification RFC 7231 (Section 4.3.4), the PUT request can have a payload. Therefore, it must be parsed in the slim Request implementation. Looks like a bug to me.

More infos:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-4.3.4

Payloads of HTTP Request Methods

[qwertytest]

Looks like a bug to me too.
Your solution is nearly ok, but return an empty array, meanwhile I found this workaround:

parse_str(file_get_contents(‘php://input’), $bodyParams);

is this accetable/secure? Many thanks for your time.

[odan]

Slim is a PSR-11 based micro framework. So you must use the Request object and not the vanilla php functions.

e.g.

parse_str($request->getBody()->getContents(), $bodyParams);

Question: Why don’t you send JSON via PUT?