Post method works in raw but not in x-www-form-urlencoded POSTMAN

Question

This might be stupid but I hope you guys could enlighten me why this works

Image: POST using RAW But using x-www-form-urlencoded makes all value null

here's the php side

<?php
// required headers
header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://localhost/mediapp/");
header("Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8");
header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST");
header("Access-Control-Max-Age: 3600");
header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type, Access-Control-Allow-Headers, Authorization, X-Requested-With");

// files needed to connect to database
include_once 'config/database.php';
include_once 'Objects/user.php';

// get database connection
$database = new Database();
$db = $database->getConnection();

// instantiate user object
$user = new User($db);

// get posted data
$data = json_decode(file_get_contents("php://input"));

I also tried changing the content type but results are still the same. Am I not using POSTMAN properly, do I need to change something in php side? I need it to also work with x-www-form-url-encoded

FWIW: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26723467/what-is-the-difference-between-form-data-x-www-form-urlencoded-and-raw-in-the-p — ficuscr, Dec 28 '18 at 06:49
The request must contain `Content-type: application/json` instead of `Content-type: aplication/x-www-form-url-encoded` for this to work. — Salman A, Dec 28 '18 at 07:23

ewwink · Answer 1 · 2018-12-28T07:27:32.550

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x-www-form-urlencoded will send the body like

firstname=mikey&lastname=dalisay

that why json_decode() return null, use parse_str to convert it to PHP object

parse_str(file_get_contents("php://input"), $data);
var_dump($data);
echo $data['firstname'];

if you want to accept both raw and x-www-form-urlencoded you can write like

$reqBody = file_get_contents("php://input");
$data = json_decode($reqBody);
if(!$data){
  parse_str($reqBody, $data);
}

edited Dec 28 '18 at 07:27

answered Dec 28 '18 at 07:00

ewwink

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You could simply check the content type header from the request then call json_decode or parse_str depending on content type, or throw an error if any other content type is encountered. – Salman A Dec 28 '18 at 07:32
still returns null – jtyg Dec 28 '18 at 08:27
@jtyg it null when you print `$data` or response from database? – ewwink Dec 29 '18 at 09:39

Post method works in raw but not in x-www-form-urlencoded POSTMAN

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