How do I emulate a typical request

[john-everden]

Using Codeigniter 4. Attempting to hit a controller router but $_REQUEST in the script is blank? $_SERVER has REQUEST_URI

Example below:

$client     = new Client();
$connection = new NetworkSocket('localhost', 9000);
$request    = new GetRequest('/var/ci4/public/index.php', '');
$request->setRequestUri('/home/testagain');
$response = $client->sendRequest($connection, $request);
echo $response->getBody();

[hollodotme]

Hi John, thanks for your request!

In the code above you did not add any content that would fill the $_REQUEST array as far as I can see.

In order to do so you'd need to pass data to the second parameter for the GetRequest instance.

For example, if you want to have "Hello world" as the value of the key "test" in your $_REQUEST array, the code would look like this:

$client     = new Client();
$connection = new NetworkSocket('localhost', 9000);

$data = [
    'test' => 'Hello world',
];

$content = http_build_query($data);

$request    = new GetRequest('/var/ci4/public/index.php', $content);
$request->setRequestUri('/home/testagain');
$response = $client->sendRequest($connection, $request);
echo $response->getBody();

This is also noted in the docs: https://github.com/hollodotme/fast-cgi-client#send-request-synchronously

By default the content type of the request content is application/x-www-form-urlencoded, as you can read here: https://github.com/hollodotme/fast-cgi-client#default-values

Hope this helps.