php superglobal function ($GLOBALS['headers']['Authorization']) in never set. why? - php

Question

I have php function that is supposed to verify if there is a token, and if so, search my table for a company name that matches. The function works fine when I use xampp in localhost. When I do it in prod on the server, it gives me a 'token undefined' error, What could possibly be causing the error?
my php function
public function findCompany(){
echo "global var= ";
// var_dump($GLOBALS['headers']['Authorization']);
// var_dump($GLOBALS);
var_dump($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
if (isset($GLOBALS['headers']['Authorization'])) {
if ($id = $this->VerifyUserToken($GLOBALS['headers']['Authorization'], $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])) {
$data = [
'company_name' => $_POST['company_name']
];
$companies = $this->currentModel->findCompany($data);
if($companies){
echo json_encode($companies);
} else {
echo json_encode(['success' => false]);
}
}
else {
echo json_encode(['success' => false, 'error' => "invalid token"]);
}
} else {
echo json_encode(['success' => false, 'error' => "token undefined"]);
}
}
}
the verifyUserToken function
public function verifyUserToken($token, $ip) {
$db = new Database();
$db->query('SELECT * FROM auth WHERE token = :token AND expiry >now()');
$db->bind(':token', $token);
//check database if token exists and is not expired
if($res = $db->single()) {
// checks if token matches to ip address
// returns user or contact id if verified else returns false
if($res->token === $token && $res->ip === $ip) {
$this->cleanTokens();
if($res->user_id >0) {
return $res->user_id;
}
//
} else {
return false;
}
} else {
return false;
}
}
I checked the database, and the token is clearly there. anyway, it's not giving me an invalid token message. it looks like the token isn't being sent.
It works fine when I do it in localhost on my machine.
IN order to debug, I used var_dump to see what gets sent. I don't have much experience with PHP, but it looks like my headers authorizations never gets set. what could be the solution
see the images and code below for what I get in the console when I try. I truncated some of the paths for security purposes
echo "global var= ";
and
var_dump($GLOBALS);
you get
["GLOBALS"]=>
*RECURSION*
["headers"]=>
array(13) {
["Host"]=>
string(20) "globalplantbased.com"
["Connection"]=>
string(10) "keep-alive"
["Content-Length"]=>
string(2) "15"
["Pragma"]=>
string(8) "no-cache"
["Cache-Control"]=>
string(8) "no-cache"
["Accept"]=>
string(33) "application/json, text/plain, */*"
["User-Agent"]=>
string(115) "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.150 Safari/537.36"
["Content-Type"]=>
string(33) "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
["Origin"]=>
string(27) "http://globalplantbased.com"
["Referer"]=>
string(59) "http://globalplantbased.com"
["Accept-Encoding"]=>
string(13) "gzip, deflate"
["Accept-Language"]=>
string(14) "en-US,en;q=0.9"
["Cookie"]=>
string(31) "_ga=GA1.2.1321601484.1609694939"
or
echo "global var= ";
and
var_dump($GLOBALS['headers']['Authorization']);
or
echo "global var= ";
and
var_dump($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
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Answer 1

$this->VerifyUserToken($GLOBALS['headers']['Authorization...
Has to be
$this->verifyUserToken($GLOBALS['headers']['Authorization
Windows does not make a Difference between capital and small Letters
Regards,
Henrik