Any way to see php POST data from external sources?

Question

OK...so here's the deal. I've been experimenting with RFID technology. Long story short, the RFID reader can send data read from tags to an HTML page as a data stream. Therefore the data gets sent as POST data. Let's say I have a page called datastream.php that takes the post data and writes the data to a MySQL database and that's it.

Is there any way to create a separate page (data-monitor.php) that will show the POST data that is being sent from the RFID reader to the datastream.php page in real time (or close to it)? Maybe AJAX? Sorry there's no code examples. This is more a high level question to see if will even work. I have a feeling that I'll probably just make the data-monitor.php page update a div or something with data from the MySQL tables as it gets written using AJAX.

The only way I can think of is, have datastream.php also write a log file, and data-monitor.php just refreshes every X seconds showing the last several entries, likewise it could fetch last X inserted rows from the DB table — Duane Lortie, Sep 01 '16 at 20:01

Laith · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-01T20:58:08.567

2 ways i guess , the first is to create a php page and use $_POST['input name'] and then echo the values or maybe save them in a database !.

Or using Browsers to see The POST data , i do use it when i have an AJAX code and want to know if it did pass a values to the target page . Now how can you do that ?

First this is AJAX code that i use to to submit a from to another php code :

<script>
    function usersignup()
    {
      var username = document.getElementById("username").value;
      var email = document.getElementById("email").value;
      var password = document.getElementById("password").value;
      var r_password = document.getElementById("r_password").value;
      var gender = document.getElementById("gender").value;



      if(r_password != password)
        {
            document.getElementById('notmatchpass').style.display ='block';
        }

        else
        {

      if(username && email && password && gender)
      {
        $.ajax
        ({
          type: 'post',
          url: 'lib/signup.php',
          data: 
          {
             newuser:username,
             user_email:email,
             user_password:password,
             user_gender:gender
          },
          success: function (response) 
          {
            document.getElementById("respond").innerHTML=response+document.getElementById("respond").innerHTML;
            document.getElementById("signupform").innerHTML="";

          }, 
                error: function(response) {
                console.log(response);
            }
        });
      }
      }
      return false;
    }
</script>

This is the part that used to activate the console ( browser console )

error: function(response) {
console.log(response);}

Now just to test if its working or not , before i submit the form , i will do this :

Click F12 on the browser
Pick from the tool bar ( Network )

Now i will submit the form
After that i will pick Parmas

Now what we are going to see is the data that were sent

For me as i said i did not find anything else to use it except to testing . But other Developers for sure need it .

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 01 '16 at 20:10

You can add another page i.e. tables.php where you will just display table from the MySQL database

And in your data-monitor.php you may have a code like this that loads data from tables.php and refreshes the page tables.php every second

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
var timeout = setInterval(reloaddata, 1000);    
function reloaddata () {
     $('#incomingdata').load('tables.php');
}
</script>

<div id="incomingdata">
<!--This div will display data from tables.php and it will refresh every second-->
</div>

Any way to see php POST data from external sources?

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