php-backbone.php

<?php

// create $_PUT and $_DELETE globals
$_PUT = array();
$_DELETE = array();
$method = strtoupper($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']); 
if ( preg_match('/application\/json/i', $_SERVER['CONTENT_TYPE']) ) {
  // if content is JSON, parse accordingly...
  switch ( $method ) {
    case "GET":
    case "POST":
    case "PUT":
    case "DELETE":
      $variable = "_".$method;
      $$variable = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'), true);
      break;
    default:
      // unsupported method, throw error?
  }
} else {
  // Standard parsing for HTML Forms (application/x-www-form-urlencoded)
  switch ( $method ) {
    case "GET":
    case "POST":
      // nothing to do, PHP parses normally
      break;
    case "PUT":
      parse_str(file_get_contents('php://input'), $_PUT);
      break;
    case "DELETE":
      parse_str(file_get_contents('php://input'), $_DELETE);
      break;
    default:
      // unsupported method, throw error?
  }
}