How do I read any request header in PHP
IF: you only need a single header, instead of all headers, the quickest method is:
<?php// Replace XXXXXX_XXXX with the name of the header you need in UPPERCASE (and with '-' replaced by '_')$headerStringValue = $_SERVER['HTTP_XXXXXX_XXXX'];
ELSE IF: you run PHP as an Apache module or, as of PHP 5.4, using FastCGI (simple method):
<?php$headers = apache_request_headers();foreach ($headers as $header => $value) { echo "$header: $value <br />\n";}
ELSE: In any other case, you can use (userland implementation):
<?phpfunction getRequestHeaders() { $headers = array(); foreach($_SERVER as $key => $value) { if (substr($key, 0, 5) <> 'HTTP_') { continue; } $header = str_replace(' ', '-', ucwords(str_replace('_', ' ', strtolower(substr($key, 5))))); $headers[$header] = $value; } return $headers;}$headers = getRequestHeaders();foreach ($headers as $header => $value) { echo "$header: $value <br />\n";}
See Also:
getallheaders() - (PHP >= 5.4) cross platform edition Alias of apache_request_headers()
apache_response_headers() - Fetch all HTTP response headers.
headers_list() - Fetch a list of headers to be sent.
$_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']
RFC3875, 4.1.18:
Meta-variables with names beginning with
HTTP_
contain values read from the client request header fields, if the protocol used is HTTP. The HTTP header field name is converted to upper case, has all occurrences of-
replaced with_
and hasHTTP_
prepended to give the meta-variable name.
You should find all HTTP headers in the $_SERVER
global variable prefixed with HTTP_
uppercased and with dashes (-) replaced by underscores (_).
For instance your X-Requested-With
can be found in:
$_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']
It might be convenient to create an associative array from the $_SERVER
variable. This can be done in several styles, but here's a function that outputs camelcased keys:
$headers = array();foreach ($_SERVER as $key => $value) { if (strpos($key, 'HTTP_') === 0) { $headers[str_replace(' ', '', ucwords(str_replace('_', ' ', strtolower(substr($key, 5)))))] = $value; }}
Now just use $headers['XRequestedWith']
to retrieve the desired header.
PHP manual on $_SERVER
: http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php