Get PATCH request data in PHP

Question

I need to make a PATCH request to a PHP application.

How can I get the data from that PATCH request inside that application?

If I h

Answer 1

You have $_REQUEST superglobal containing all data we can get regardless the HTTP method used (GET, POST, PATCH, PUT)

Answer 2

Since none of the above has worked for me in PHP 5.6, here's a solution that actually did.

I used this parse_raw_http_request($data) function by Christof.

And here's the code:

$_PATCH = [];
parse_str(file_get_contents('php://input'), $_PATCH);
parse_raw_http_request($_PATCH);

// From now on, the $_PATCH variable keeps all request arguments as well,
// and they're accessible under approprate keys like $_PATCH['yourKey']

Answer 3

I know that this has been solved, but for anyone who was hoping for an answer like

$_PATCH["name"];

there is a way to do that:

parse_str(file_get_contents('php://input'), $_PATCH);

then you can access it like $_GET["something"] and $_POST["something"] just do

$_PATCH["something"]

hope that helped someone :)

Answer 4

You can get data with php://input stream wrapper:

$data = file_get_contents('php://input');

Also make sure your web server supports PATCH requests, some are configured to respond only to GET and POST.