Requests

Flight encapsulates the HTTP request into a single object, which can be accessed by doing:

$request = Flight::request();

The request object provides the following properties:

• body - The raw HTTP request body
• url - The URL being requested
• base - The parent subdirectory of the URL
• method - The request method (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)
• referrer - The referrer URL
• ip - IP address of the client
• ajax - Whether the request is an AJAX request
• scheme - The server protocol (http, https)
• user_agent - Browser information
• type - The content type
• length - The content length
• query - Query string parameters
• data - Post data or JSON data
• cookies - Cookie data
• files - Uploaded files
• secure - Whether the connection is secure
• accept - HTTP accept parameters
• proxy_ip - Proxy IP address of the client
• host - The request host name

You can access the query, data, cookies, and files properties as arrays or objects.

So, to get a query string parameter, you can do:

$id = Flight::request()->query['id'];

Or you can do:

$id = Flight::request()->query->id;

RAW Request Body

To get the raw HTTP request body, for example when dealing with PUT requests, you can do:

$body = Flight::request()->getBody();

JSON Input

If you send a request with the type application/json and the data {"id": 123} it will be available from the data property:

$id = Flight::request()->data->id;

Accessing $_SERVER

There is a shortcut available to access the $_SERVER array via the getVar() method:

$host = Flight::request()->getVar['HTTP_HOST'];

Accessing Request Headers

You can access request headers using the getHeader() or getHeaders() method:

// Maybe you need Authorization header
$host = Flight::request()->getHeader('Authorization');

// If you need to grab all headers
$headers = Flight::request()->getHeaders();