John Davidson

Message:

I'm experimenting with some PHP code, not so expert...
I'm a beginner in PHP so please forgive me.

I wrote this simple code:

<?php

echo("test");

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == "POST") {

    $name = $_POST['fname'];

    if (empty($name)) {

      echo "Name is empty";

      var_dump($name);

    } else {

      echo $name;

    }

} else {

    echo("IS A GET");

}

?>

i'am using postman to send a POST request but looks like the parm I send Is always NULL.

is it something wrong on my code?

thanks

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My Answer:
php

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {
$data = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'), true);

if ($data) {
echo "Received data: " . print_r($data, true);
} else {
echo "No data received";
}
} else {
echo "This is not a POST request";
}


This code checks if the request method is POST and then tries to decode the JSON data from the request body using `file_get_contents('php://input')`. If the data is successfully decoded, it will be printed out. If no data is received, it will output "No data received".

Make sure you are sending a valid JSON payload in your POST request. You can test this code by sending a POST request with JSON data using tools like Postman or cURL.