Overwriting $_POST for PUT or DELETE requests

Question

In PHP I would like to be able to access PUT and DELETE vars globally similar to how GET and POST vars are accessed globa

Answer 1

Leave Post and Get as it is. it shouldn't be modified as it's for reading purposes only. Create $_PUT and $_DELETE globals:

//  globals
$_DELETE = array ();
$_PUT = array ();

switch ( $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] ) {
    case !strcasecmp($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'],'DELETE'):
        parse_str( file_get_contents( 'php://input' ), $_DELETE );
        break;

    case !strcasecmp($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'],'PUT'):
        parse_str( file_get_contents( 'php://input' ), $_PUT );
        break;
}

Not tested but you should get the idea. I was in the search for a rest framework myself some weeks ago and decided to go with python. Recess (http://www.recessframework.org/) sounds promising though