Capture data sent by curl -d with PHP

Question

I'm trying to capture data sent by curl using PHP but it doesn't appear on my end.

I'm executing via console:

curl -d "tests_123" "http://www.example.com/capture.php"

and I have in capture.php

print_r($_POST);
print_r($_GET);
print_r($_REQUEST);

But nothing appears.

Am I doing something wrong?

Answered fully in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/664148/how-to-access-post-data-in-php — maxpolk, May 29 '13 at 19:47

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 29 '13 at 19:42

0

You have to use this to capture such data:

$log.="http_get_request_body \n";
$entityBody = file_get_contents('php://input');
$log.=print_r($entityBody,true);
$log.="\n----------------\n\n";

Thanks to @crodas for this! :)

answered May 29 '13 at 19:42

pabloacastillo

33
4

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 29 '13 at 19:46

Im sure that you can get the data with $response = file_get_contents('php://input');

However, If you change your command a little bit, and add a key to the value you are sending, you can get the data from your $_POST variable quite easily.

curl -d "Mykey=tests_123" "http://www.example.com/capture.php"

print_r($_POST);
// array ( Mykey => test_123)

Capture data sent by curl -d with PHP

2 Answers2