file_get_contents('php://input') always returns an empty string

Question

I\'m building a PHP RESTful API, following this tutorial. The following function, which should return the data sent with the request when the \'put\' method is used, returns

Answer 1

for me this problem started, suddenly.
i had installed ssl certificate.
when i checked the response code it showed me 301, then i realized and changed
http://
to
https://
and got all the request back with file_get_contents('php://input').

in your example curl call:
put s after http as shown below:
curl -i -X PUT -d '{"address":"Sunset Boulevard"}' https://localhost/clients/ryan