PHP multipart form data PUT request?

Question

I\'m writing a RESTful API. I\'m having trouble with uploading images using the different verbs.

Consider:

I have an object which can be created/modified/del

Answer 1

I've been trying to figure out how to work with this issue without having to break RESTful convention and boy howdie, what a rabbit hole, let me tell you.

I'm adding this anywhere I can find in the hope that it will help somebody out in the future.

I've just lost a day of development firstly figuring out that this was an issue, then figuring out where the issue lay.

As mentioned, this isn't a symfony (or laravel, or any other framework) issue, it's a limitation of PHP.

After trawling through a good few RFCs for php core, the core development team seem somewhat resistant to implementing anything to do with modernising the handling of HTTP requests. The issue was first reported in 2011, it doesn't look any closer to having a native solution.

That said, I managed to find this PECL extension called Always Populate Form Data. I'm not really very familiar with pecl, and couldn't seem to get it working using pear. but I'm using CentOS and Remi PHP which has a yum package.

I ran yum install php-pecl-apfd and it literally fixed the issue straight away (well I had to restart my docker containers but that was a given).

I believe there are other packages in various flavours of linux and I'm sure anybody with more knowledge of pear/pecl/general php extensions could get it running on windows or mac with no issue.