Re: [RFC Proposal] Introducing New Global Variable to Support Other HTTP Methods and Content Types

Am 13.12.2016 14:45 schrieb "Dejan Stošić" <dejanstosic7@gmail.com>: *The problem* Currently, PHP will parse the incoming HTTP request body only for GET requests (and store the data in superglobal $_GET) and for POST requests (and store the data in $_POST). Additionally it will parse the data only for *application/x-www-form-urlencoded* or *multipart/form-data *HTTP Content types. There are other 3rd party libraries and packages that enhance this and enable parsing for other request methods and content types, but i feel like this should have native support at this point. *Goal* Ideally, PHP should natively parse the incoming HTTP request body for all request methods, not only for GET and POST. I guess that completely replacing the $_POST and $_GET is out of the question as it would lead to no backward compatibility. Maybe an additional superglobal could be introduced ($_DATA)? Have a look at http://pecl.php.net/apfd which triggers the request body parser on any request method. Also, http://pecl.php.net/json_post provides a content type handler for JSON. Parsing of the request body happens before entering userland, so providing a pluggable interface (to userland) is not an option currently. Cheers, Mike Thanks