PHP: Possible to automatically get all POSTed data?

Question

Simple question: Is it possible to get all the data POSTed to a page, even if you don\'t know all the fields?

For example, I want to write a simple script that colle

Answer 1

No one mentioned Raw Post Data, but it's good to know, if posted data has no key, but only value, use Raw Post Data:

$postdata = file_get_contents("php://input");

PHP Man:

php://input is a read-only stream that allows you to read raw data from the request body. In the case of POST requests, it is preferable to use php://input instead of $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA as it does not depend on special php.ini directives. Moreover, for those cases where $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is not populated by default, it is a potentially less memory intensive alternative to activating always_populate_raw_post_data. php://input is not available with enctype="multipart/form-data".

Answer 2

As long as you don't want any special formatting: yes.

foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) 
    $body .= $key . ' -> ' . $value . '<br>';

Obviously, more formatting would be necessary, however that's the "easy" way. Unless I misunderstood the question.

You could also do something like this (and if you like the format, it's certainly easier):

$body = print_r($_POST, true);

Answer 3

All posted data will be in the $_POST superglobal.

http://php.net/manual/reserved.variables.post.php

Answer 4

You can use $_REQUEST as well as $_POST to reach everything such as Post, Get and Cookie data.

Answer 5

Sure. Just walk through the $_POST array:

foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
    echo "Field ".htmlspecialchars($key)." is ".htmlspecialchars($value)."<br>";
}

Answer 6

Yes you can use simply

     $input_data = $_POST;

or extract() may be useful for you.