Export PHP Request to cURL command

The problem

There is an endpoint which needs to be accessed multiple times in a row, but it is pretty hard to do from browser, or it is accessed by a webhook with some very specific parameters.

With this method you can get the incoming request and turn into a cURL command, which can be modified and executed from bash any time you want.

The solution

Declare the following function where you want to use it:

function buildCurlCommand() {
        // Base command
        $curlCommand = 'curl -X ' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'];

        // Add headers
        foreach (getallheaders() as $key => $value) {
            $curlCommand .= " -H '" . $key . ": " . $value . "'";
        }

        // Add POST/PUT data
        if (in_array($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'], ['POST', 'PUT', 'PATCH'])) {
            $input = file_get_contents('php://input');
            if (!empty($input)) {
                $curlCommand .= " --data '" . addslashes($input) . "'";
            }
        }

        // Add query parameters (if any)
        $queryString = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
        $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_SCHEME'] . '://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
        if (!empty($queryString)) {
            $url = strtok($url, '?');
            $url .= '?' . $queryString;
        }

        // Append the URL to the command
        $curlCommand .= " '" . $url . "'";

        return $curlCommand;
    }

Write its response to a file, from where you can put it into bash:

file_put_contents('/var/www/html/var/logs/incoming_curl.log', date('Y-m-d H:i:s').': '.$this->buildCurlCommand().PHP_EOL, FILE_APPEND);