Laravel-4 Empty PUT data being sent to a resourceful controller

Question

G'day,

I'm having issues with PUT requests made via Chrome Postman to a controller, the PUT data is not present, POST data works fine.

I had performed a composer update prior to ensure that the latest version of vendor products where available and even removed bootstrap/compiled.php.

Is anybody else having similar issues?

The update function with both section_id and data being empty in the response:

public function update($id)
{
    $section_id = Input::get('section_id');

    $data = Input::all();

    return Response::json(array('id' => $id, 'section_id' => $section_id, 'data' => $data));
}

I've debugged the code all the way to ParameterBag.php and $this->request's parameter list is empty, I'm not sure what's supposed to contain any values but all through the code the input values are empty. Not sure what to do now, short of using post instead of put.

Answer 1

PUT parameters don't work "out of the box" because PHP itself has some security restrictions around them. See: http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.put-method.php

Laravel does implement a common workaround for this, though.

In Postman (or your form, or curl, or whatever client you're using), simply add a URL parameter name: "_method" value: PUT

Example 1: ?_method=PUT

Example 2: <input type="hidden" name="_method" value="PUT" />

Laravel uses the symfony Http Foundation which checks for the _method variable and if it's present it routes based on its value, instead of the actual HTTP method used.

Answer 2

You have to send a POST request with adding an extra parameter _method with value PUT and it will works fine.