Find out HTTP method in PHP [duplicate]

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• Detecting request type in PHP (GET, POST, PUT or DELETE) 11 answers

How can I find out which method (usually GET or POST) is used for the current request?

Answer 1

$_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']

See the docs. It will contain the request method upper-cased (i.e. 'GET', 'HEAD', 'POST', 'PUT').

Answer 2

While checking

$_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']

seems the obvious choice, since some of the people are advocating safe superglobals alternatives (Is using superglobals directly good or bad in PHP? and similar questions), one may actually use autosanitizing

filter_input( INPUT_SERVER, 'REQUEST_METHOD' )

(possibly with some additional filtering switches, eg. FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS) instead.

Of course, in the regular (GET/POST) case there ain't anything to sanitize, but a good habit is still a good habit IMO.

http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.filter-input.php