PUT and POST request data poorly documented

[Bill Dickson]

I am new to F3 and am starting to use it as a lightweight router for a REST backend to a single page app after tiring of how SLIM has become anything but SLIM, and SLIM v2 (which was actually slim) no longer works in PHP 8.1.

I am wondering why I had to dig deep into stack overflow to learn that in order to get variables from a PUT request, I have to do this:

parse_str($f3->get('BODY'), $p);

POST is certainly easier,

$params = $f3['REQUEST'];

Shouldn't this stuff be more prominent in the docs?  Or am I using F3 unwisely?

[Austin Collier]

PUT and DELETE are not part of the html spec so there isn't such a
thing as $f3['PUT']; Additionally PUT and DELETE methods are not
handled in <form> tags but really only handled with ajax calls through
JavaScript. As such, typically the way that variables are passed are
like you mentioned, either parsing the body out, or using JSON instead
and decoding the JSON. I would say though that JSON is more common
than passing body params like a POST request.

On 11/24/22, Bill Dickson via Fat-Free Framework

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[Bill Dickson]

Thanks much for the insight on this. 

I was (mistakenly) sending the ajax call Content Type : application/x-www-form-urlencoded which was generating the name/ value body.  By sending it Content Type: application/json, the body is the json string, and then on the server json_decode($f3->get('BODY')) does the job elegantly.

Thanks again for your reply.  I am still wondering if F3 is more than I need when all I'm doing is routing ajax data calls.