Greetings,
It seems that when using a POST request to upload a file, getUploadedFiles() behaves as expected, but when identical code is used but for using PUT requests instead of POST, getUploadedFiles() returns an empty array.
Is this for a particular reason? Is there a way to trivially access the uploaded files from a PUT request?
Thanks!
This behavior depends on the PSR-7 implementation.
Most PSR-7 implementations use the $_FILES variable to retrieve the uploaded files.
As far as I know, the $_FILES variable is only populated for POST requests.
To retrieve the file from a PUT upload, you need to manually read and parse the request stream:
$stream = fopen('php://input', 'r');
$rawPut = stream_get_contents($stream);
fclose($stream);
// parse mime content
// https://github.com/Riverline/multipart-parser#usage
You see this is quite complex. Using PUT for file uploads should be avoided because of the missing native PHP support. POST would be the better request method.
Thank you for the detailed response. I was worried that might be the case.
I seem to regularly be running into issues with how PHP natively handles PUT requests. I understand the decision not to make opinionated decisions about architecture but I must say that from my personal perspective, it doesn’t seem very intuitive that these operations would not both have similar access to the request body— perhaps there’s something I don’t understand at the deeper level.
Anyways, thanks again.