Advanced REST client does not send POST data

Question

I have this simple code

<?php
$json = array("status" => $_POST['name']);
header('Content-type: application/json');
echo json_encode($json);
?>

and when i send POST data with Advanced REST cliend, allways have an empty $_POST table.

Why don't you have anything in the payload? You need to paste the json data into that section — ShaneOH, Jun 13 '16 at 19:28
@dios231 php doesn't know how to natively parse json. Change raw headers to `multipart/form-data` and change raw payload to `name=test` — bassxzero, Jun 13 '16 at 19:39
still not sending POST. Btwi if i change the `$_POST` to `$_GET` it display the name althouht that i have select post option at arc — dios231, Jun 13 '16 at 19:44
I found the answer!!! http://stackoverflow.com/a/31977373/5277185 — dios231, Jun 13 '16 at 20:00

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 14 '16 at 09:48

You are using wrong transport method. If you want to read POST data in $_POST array you have to send it either as multipart or www form urlencoded.

To read the request body you have to use following code:

$postdata = file_get_contents("php://input");

Then you can parse the JSON and transform it to object.

If you want to read the data from the request using $_POST array you need to set Content-Type header to application/x-www-form-urlencoded and send the data as:

param-name=param+value

(note that it is url encoded).

Advanced REST client does not send POST data

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