Comments on: Reading raw POST data in PHP

By: Hardik

Hardik — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:18:49 +0000

Thanks its working fine now.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:59:12 +0000

I’m currently going through that learning curve. I could do this easily with perl, except that I was hoping not to. I’m writing a very fancy file uploader, and I haven’t figured out how to grab the raw uploaded file size before the file is actually uploaded. Any suggestions?

By: julian

julian — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:41:30 +0000

“php://input does not work with multipart/form-data because of the way file uploads are streamed directly to disk”

Which seems like a strange decision to make on behalf of PHP developers. What if I want to pump file upload data straight across from the webserver to a database or to s3 or something? Why force it to hit the local disk?
It seems hard to find information about how to get direct access to the raw data when enctype is multipart/form-data.

By: Trii

Trii — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:25:28 +0000

In addition to you post for the people who don’t know or ask why:

php://input does not work with multipart/form-data because of the way file uploads are streamed directly to disk