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<div class="grid--cell mb0 mt8">Closed <span title="2013-03-07 02:25:10Z" class="relativetime">7 years ago</span>.</div>
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I have an app setup that continually sends a value via AJAX POST.
I need to know whether the POST is happening and sending the correct values.
Are there ways to do this that don't involve setting up a database to store received values?
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On PHP side do just a
var_dump($_POST);
or if you need that in a file
// Make sure that 'debug.txt' is writable
file_put_contents('debug.txt', print_r($_POST), true));
Update: Seems that I've not read the question carefully. I first thought that you are looking for some client side tools for testing. So I wrote the following answer.. However it may be interesting too for you and therefore I didn't deleted it...
If you are working with firefox I like the poster plugin. It's a nice tool to test all sorts of HTTP requests
If you prefer the command line (like me) I would suggest to use wget or curl
Using curl:
curl --data "param1=value1¶m2=value2" http://yourserver/your.php
Using wget:
wget -O - --post-data="param1=value1¶m2=value2" http://yourserver/your.php