Using post data

[fi5u]

Hi, I'm just getting set up with this plugin and I'm wondering how I pass Post data through and then use it from the slim_mapping function.

I'm querying the api with javascript, (specifically Angular):

req = {
    method: 'POST',
    url: CONSTANTS.external.server + '/slim/api/posts',
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    },
    data: {
        'abc': '123',
        'def': '456'
    }
}

$http(req).success(function(response, status) {
...

Then in the PHP file, the slim_mapping function looks like:

public function slim_mapping($slim) {
    $context = $this;

    $slim->post('/slim/api/posts', function($data)use($context) {
        $context->addPost($data);
    });
}

private function addPost($data) {
    echo json_encode($data);
}

How do I get hold of the passed data within the data object?

[Botnary]

req = {
    method: 'POST',
    url: CONSTANTS.external.server + '/slim/api/posts',
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    },
    data: JSON.stringify({
        'abc': '123',
        'def': '456'
    })
}

try to stringify your object with json and send it as plain text. so your request will look like this:

POST /slim/api/posts HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 7_0_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11B554a Safari/9537.53
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Content-Length: 24
Connection: keep-alive

{"abc": 123, "def": 456}

[fi5u]

Thanks, but it seems like when I try to pass any data, I get a 404 error with: XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://dev.site/slim/api/posts. If I don't pass the data, I don't get the error. Any ideas what might be causing this issue?

[Botnary]

In web master tools when you do your request and you don't get 404 what TYPE it says ? POST or GET. Maybe your XMLHttpRequest wrapper when it has an empty body is using GET ?

[fi5u]

It was going through as POST but I found that it didn't seem to like the header content type application/json. So I sent it as text/plain and I no longer get the error. However, I'm also still not able to process the data. Checking the Slim documentation again it seemed the code in $slim->post() was wrong. The following is what I currently have, but it just returns a 500 error.

public function slim_mapping($slim) {
    $context = $this;
    $slim->post('/slim/api/posts', function()use($context) {
        $data = $slim->request->getBody();
        $context->addPost($data);
    });
}

[Botnary]

and you checked the Apache errors.log and found no clues why you get that 500 response ? and what do you do with data ? do you json_decode it ?

[fi5u]

Nothing is logged to Apache error log when the request is made. I'm almost certain the problem lies with how I'm getting the data within the PHP code. If I replace the line $data = $slim->request->getBody(); in slim_mapping() with $data = 'abc' then abc is returned back to the JavaScript calling function with a 200 response. This says to me that the above line is producing an error. Is it correct that it is $slim->request->getBody()?

[Botnary]

yes you are right, to have access to the $slim object in the callback function you need to add it to the use($context, $slim) and now you have access to $slim object.

public function slim_mapping($slim) {
    $context = $this;
    $slim->post('/slim/api/posts', function()use($context, $slim) {
        $data = $slim->request->getBody();
        $context->addPost($data);
    });
}

[fi5u]

Yes, that works! Many thanks for working through it with me.