I want to have a HTTP POST link in my Wordpress website that lets another server to post an xml file every hour into the Wordpress server and I save it.
I created an index.php file in folders that map with the route I want, let say I need example.com/jobs/uploadFile, so I created a php file inside the folders /jobs/uploadFile of the root Wordpress directory.
<?php
if( $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] !== 'POST' ) {
header($_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]." Method Not Allowed", true, 405);
exit;
}
$postData = trim(file_get_contents('php://input'));
$xml = simplexml_load_string($postData);
if($xml === false) {
header($_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]." Bad Request", true, 400);
exit;
}
$xml->asXml('jobs.xml');
http_response_code(200);
1- I send a HTTP POST request via postman, but somehow the server or Wordpress changes it a HTTP GET request, so always the first if condition is executed. I'm using Laravel forge server with Nginx.
2- Appreciate any security advice about this approach, CORS...?
Thanks for your help
Since it may help others, I answer my question. I was doing it the wrong way. The better way to do it is by using actions in a custom Wordpress plugin. Just create a custom plugin and use add_action inside it:
add_action( 'rest_api_init', function() {
register_rest_route(
'myapi/v1', 'myUploadURL',
[
'methods' => 'POST',
'callback' => 'my_upload_function',
'permission_callback' => '__return_true',
]
);
});
And then you can get the $_FILES of the POST request in the my_upload_function() and save it on your server.