Reading json input in php

Question

php://input is working properly in localhost. But in server it returns empty. Input( request ) to my site is a json(REST - application/json typ

Answer 1

I know this is old, but it might help others:

Careful with single quotes inside your json

From the PHP documentation about json_decode:

the name and value must be enclosed in double quotes
single quotes are not valid 

$bad_json = "{ 'bar': 'baz' }";
json_decode($bad_json); // null