public static function processRequest()
{
// get our verb
$request_method = strtolower($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']);
$return_obj = new RestRequest();
// we'll store our data here
$data = array();
$pathArray = array();
$pathURIArray = array();
$pathURIArray = parse_url(strtolower($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]));
// breaks the query string and path out
// strip leading '/' TO DO - I was stripping the leading '/' - why was this? Win / Linux diff?
// $path = $pathURIArray['path'];
// if (strlen($path) > 1 && substr($path,0,1) ==='/') {
// $path = substr($path, 1, strlen($path)-1);
// }
// modified to use trim and to strip the first and final /
// isset reqd for www.mydomain.com//news caused error
if (isset($pathURIArray['path'])) {
$path = trim($pathURIArray['path'], '/');
} else {
$path = "";
}
$pathArray = explode("/", $path);
// error_log(print_r($pathArray,true));
$return_obj->setPathArray($pathArray);
// Get the URL variables / POST variables
switch ($request_method) {
// gets are easy...
case 'get':
// it's not as simple is the example I started from. I'm looking for a ? in the URI as couldn't just use isset($_GET).
//error_log($pathURI . ' - ' . strpos($pathURI, '?'));
if (strpos($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], '?') !== FALSE) {
$data = $_GET;
//error_log (print_r($_GET,true));
//error_log (print_r($data,true));
}
// else {
// $data = $pathURIArray;
// }
break;
// so are posts
// TO DO TEST THIS
// so are posts
// TO DO TEST THIS
case 'post':
$data = $_POST;
break;
// here's the tricky bit...
// TO DO TEST THIS
// here's the tricky bit...
// TO DO TEST THIS
case 'put':
// basically, we read a string from PHP's special input location,
// and then parse it out into an array via parse_str... per the PHP docs:
// Parses str as if it were the query string passed via a URL and sets
// variables in the current scope.
parse_str(file_get_contents('php://input'), $put_vars);
$data = $put_vars;
break;
}
// store the method
$return_obj->setMethod($request_method);
// set the raw data, so we can access it if needed (there may be other pieces to your requests)
$return_obj->setRequestVars($data);
return $return_obj;
}