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Get the JWS Payload as a String

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Demonstrates Jws.GetPayload, which returns the payload of a loaded JWS as text, decoded using the given charset.

Background. In practice, validate the signature before trusting the payload. Getting the payload retrieves the signed content.

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

$jws = new CkJws();

//  Load the JWS compact serialization.
$jwsCompact = 'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.VGhpcyBpcyB0aGUgY29udGVudCB0byBzaWduLg.<signature>';
$success = $jws->LoadJws($jwsCompact);
if ($success == false) {
    print $jws->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Return the JWS payload as text, decoded using the given charset.
$payload = $jws->getPayload('utf-8');
if ($jws->get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
    print $jws->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

print $payload . "\n";

?>