diff --git a/src/Pecee/Http/Input/InputHandler.php b/src/Pecee/Http/Input/InputHandler.php
index 1e3ac7b..0e74bbd 100644
--- a/src/Pecee/Http/Input/InputHandler.php
+++ b/src/Pecee/Http/Input/InputHandler.php
@@ -303,13 +303,22 @@ class InputHandler
             // Append any PHP-input json
             if (strpos(trim($contents), '{') === 0) {
                 $post = json_decode($contents, true);
+
                 if ($post !== false) {
                     $output += $post;
                 }
             }
         }
 
-        return (\count($filter) > 0) ? array_intersect_key($output, array_flip($filter)) : $output;
+        $output = (\count($filter) > 0) ? array_intersect_key($output, array_flip($filter)) : $output;
+
+        foreach ($filter as $filterKey) {
+            if (array_key_exists($filterKey, $output) === false) {
+                $output[$filterKey] = null;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return $output;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -345,4 +354,4 @@ class InputHandler
         $this->file[$key] = $item;
     }
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}