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

On Windows the combination of 'single "double" quotes' does not seem to work. Use escape for quotes in your json data (as below) & it should work

curl -X PUT -d "{\"address\":\"Sunset Boulevard\"}" http://localhost/clients/ryan