storing contents of php://input in a variable
Thanks for all the help, it turns out that in order to work, the content type of the request must be application/xml, not application/x-www-form-urlencoded as it was.
if $this->request->format evaluates to false or NULL or 0, the later part of and operator does not execute.
$this->request->format and $this->request->body = file_get_contents('php://input'); ^ | +--- this part wont executeYou should have written it like
if($this->request->format){ $this->request->body = file_get_contents('php://input');}This helps in debugging.