response from POST request NULL angular/php

Question

I have a relatively simple POST request in angular...

var data = $.param({
            clientID: '329272'
        });

var config = {
            headers : {
                'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=utf-8;'
            }
        }
    $http.post('./server.php', data, config)
        .success(function (data, status, headers, config) {
            console.log(status);
            console.log(data);
        })
        .error(function (data, status, header, config) {
            console.log("nope");
        });

And my php code that receives the data is the following...

$postdata = file_get_contents('php://input');
$request = json_decode($postdata);

header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo json_encode($request);

All I am doing is sending data, then sending it back in the response to check if it worked.

The connection is made, and console prints out a status of 200, but when I console.log(data), I get a value of null. Why am I not able to receive the data?

done any basic debugging, like var_dump($postdata) to see what got received on the server? — Marc B
– Marc B, Commented Oct 18, 2016 at 16:59

tommybananas · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-18 19:21:44Z

1

$.param() does not encode into json so json_decode($postdata) parse on the server will fail.

http://api.jquery.com/jquery.param/

Create a serialized representation of an array, a plain object, or a jQuery object suitable for use in a URL query string or Ajax request.

You can use JSON.stringify to serialize javascript objects into JSON. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/JSON/stringify

edited Oct 18, 2016 at 19:21

answered Oct 18, 2016 at 16:59

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