Reading Raw Post Data in PHP

  • Wed, Nov 14, 2007
  • One-minute read

Perhaps you’d like to just sent XML over post, and not have xml=your_nodes_and_stuff_here. No sweat.

$xml = urldecode(file_get_contents('php://input'));

Enjoy.

This can now be called with:

curl -d "some_xml_here" http://yoursite.com/pagename

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