I'm sending data through POST from one application to another, using the file_get_contents function, I can't receive the data but using the variable $ _POST I can get it. Which would be the most suitable to receive the data? I would like to send a token for authentication together, how could I do that?
$cont = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'), true);
echo gettype($cont);
NULL
And when I try the pre-defined variable, I can receive the data.
$cont = $_POST;
echo gettype($cont);
array
file_get_contents('php://input')
gets the raw POST data as a string.
$_POST
gets the POST data after PHP has automatically decoded it fromapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded
ormultipart/form-data
encodings.
If the data isn't encoded using one of those methods (e.g. if it is JSON as per your first example which usesjson_decode
) then$_POST
won't be populated.
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