Detecting Request Type in PHP (Get, Post, Put or Delete)

Detecting request type in PHP (GET, POST, PUT or DELETE)

By using

$_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']

Example

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST') {
     // The request is using the POST method
}

For more details please see the documentation for the $_SERVER variable.

PHP detecting request type (GET, POST, PUT or DELETE) without using $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']

Regular if statements

if(!empty($_GET)) { 
    $request = (!empty($_POST)) ? 'both get and post' : 'get';
} else if(!empty($_POST)) {
    $request = 'post';        
}
//... You get the picture

Edit: I added a ternary within the get check to solve a problem that Gumbo noted in the comments. You can have both GET and POST vars available as you can POST data to a url with get params, i.e. /forms/addFileToCompany/?companyId=23

And now because I am a complete filth, the most horrible ternary you have ever seen! Note this is just for a bit of fun and I really do not recommend using it.

$request = (!empty($_GET)) 
    ? (!empty($_POST)) 
        ? 'both post and get' 
        : 'get'
    : (!empty($_POST))
        ? 'post'
        : (/* Keep it going for whatever */ );

Check whether a request is GET or POST

Better use $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']:

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST') {
    // …
}

POST and GET works in Postmen but PUT and DELETE doesn't

In the case of PUT and DELETE you need to get the request parameters this way:

$requestParams = array();
parse_str(file_get_contents('php://input'), $requestParams);

Then you can access the values like using $_GET or $_POST:

$requestParams['product_id']

Hope this helps.

Laravel POST api request going as null. how to make post request in laravel

You can try the following code

$uri = "https://example.com/api/your-api-url-here";
$params['headers'] = [
     'Content-type' => 'application/json'
];
$params['body'] = [
     'username' => 'helloWorld'
];
$client = new Client();
$response = $client->request('POST', $uri, $params);
$data = json_decode($response->getBody(), true);
dd($data);

And don't forget to use Guzzle/Http in your project, you simply can install guzzle http and use it in your controller like

use GuzzleHttp\Client;

How to start a GET/POST/PUT/DELETE request and judge request type in PHP?

For DELETE use curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'DELETE');

For PUT use curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, true);

An alternative that doesn't rely on cURL being installed would be to use file_get_contents with a custom HTTP stream context.

$result = file_get_contents(
    'http://example.com/submit.php', 
    false, 
    stream_context_create(array(
        'http' => array(
            'method' => 'DELETE' 
        )
    ))
);

Check out these two articles on doing REST with PHP

• http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/create-a-rest-api-with-php/
• http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/making-restful-requests-in-php/

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