PHP and Frontend Communication Issues

Frontend and Backend Development
1

Struggling to capture JSON POST data from a device’s webhook in my Apache/PHP setup. My code, shown below, doesn’t process data. How can I correct this?

<html>
  <head></head>
  <body>
    <?php
      if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] === "POST") {
          $jsonPayload = json_decode(file_get_contents("php://input"));
          // Handle the $jsonPayload here
      }
    ?>
  </body>
</html>
2

In my experience, the PHP code looks correct for processing JSON POST data. One issue to check is that the device sends a proper Content-Type header (application/json) to avoid interference from PHP configuration. I also encountered problems when output buffering was enabled in PHP, which altered the expected behavior. To debug your code, I recommend logging the raw input with file_get_contents so you can verify the transmitted data. This approach helped me identify misconfigurations in HTTP headers during integration.