Re: Parsing PUT data

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Dave <catch.dave@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Firstly, let me know if this is particularly spammy/inappropriate for this > list. > > I just wanted to get some feedback on a long-time feature request (2011) > about treating PUT the same as POST in terms of re-using the existing form > parser. See https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55815 for details. > > Normally, I wouldn't have posted this to internals, but as you can see, > there's been no movement on this for a long time. > > In short, in order to provide a proper REST service that supports multipart > form data, we need someway to parse data sent via PUT (data is available > via php://input, but it needs to be parsed). > Could be as simple as adding $_PUT / $_FILES for PUT data. > Perhaps it might be a better idea to expose the multipart parser as a function, so that you can bind the decoded body to either an object or array. The trick is to keep is_uploaded_file(), etc. working, though. > > > What's the best way to move this forward? > Do I need to create a patch/RFC? Or is this something someone can just pick > up? > > > Thanks, > Dave > -- -- Tjerk