Problem with posted data using cUrl

Hello Guys, We are posting data from an external website to our Laravel application using curl. But I don't why, we cannot get the posted data in our Laravel app using "$request->all()" or "$request->getContent()" or "file_get_contents(php://input)". CORS is enabled and allowed for all domains, we do not have any problem with CsrfToken. Codes are given below, any help appreciated.

Curl code in external site :

$fields = http_build_query($_POST);
$url = 'http://www.domain.com/api/v1/?api_token=token_goes_here';
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3);
$result = curl_exec($ch);

Route code for api :

Route::group(['prefix' => 'api', 'middleware' => 'auth:api'], function() {
    Route::any('/v1', ['as' => 'apiV1', 'uses' => '\App\Http\Controllers\Api\ApiV1Controller@index']);
});

When I dd($request->all()) in index method I get the respose below. Token is verfied, auth working properly but all I get is api_token variable which is coming via get method.

array:1 [▼
  "api_token" => "token_goes_here"
]

To check if data sent, I created a simple php file in "public/api/v1" folder on the same app and I got all fields using "die(var_dump($_POST));". Clearly there is something that I don't know about laravel.

Kenny.kk

9 years ago

Level 1

[ SOLVED ]

Hello again guys,

After reading some articles and watching some videos, I updated the curl code above and it seems like there is nothing special with Laravel about the problem I had. Everything works perfectly now.

Here is new cUrl code sending request :

$fields = http_build_query($_POST);
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3);
$result = curl_exec($ch);

Route code for api :

Route::group(['prefix' => 'api', 'middleware' => 'auth:api'], function() {
    Route::any('/v1', ['as' => 'apiV1', 'uses' => '\App\Http\Controllers\Api\ApiV1Controller@index']);
});

Index Method :

    public function index(Request $request) {
        dd($request->all());
    }

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