如果我在API中使用POST方法，如何通过在URL中传递值来在浏览器中检查php API？

Question

This API working fine when I'm testing on Postman but when I'm trying to check in browser by passing id in url it showing error. http://192.168.43.88/mydatabase/delete.php?id=1 when I use GET method then then my able to pass value in url but why m getting error in case of POST method.

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {
    $id = $_POST['id'];
    if($id == '') {
        echo 'please provide required value';
    } else {
        require_once('connection.php');
        $sql = "SELECT * FROM circle_detail WHERE id='$id' AND deleted='0' ";
        $check = mysqli_fetch_array(mysqli_query($conn, $sql));
        if(isset($check)) {
            $sql = "UPDATE  circle_detail SET deleted='1' WHERE id='$id'";
            if(mysqli_query($conn, $sql)) {
                echo 'marked as deleted';
            } else {
                echo 'oops! Please try again!';
            } 
        } else { 
            echo 'not found';
        }
        mysqli_close($conn);
    }
} else {
    echo 'error';
}

Answer 1

If you are using the POST request method but passing the variable in as a GET parameter then you need to change the following code:

$id = $_POST['id'];

To be

$id = $_GET['id'];

This way when it is a POST request it'll still look for the get parameter. Where as it is currently looking for a POST variable called id

Answer 2

If you want to use GET and POST you remove

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') { }

and use

$_REQUEST['id']

instead of $_POST

Answer 3

You can not call POST Method API from the browser for that you should use "Postman". Postman is the complete toolchain for API developers,

Postman

or use Rest Client

Advanced REST client