Question

i have a JSON data in Javascript made form array using JSON.stringify

{
   "user":"Mark",
   "id":"80",
   "0":["age","=","twenty four","varchar"],
   "1":["prefix","=","Mr.","enum"]
}

i am sending this via AJAX to PHP file. When i echo the POST i get the values

echo (serialize($_POST['data']));

s:263:
"{
    "user":"Mark",
    "id":"80",
    "0":["age","=","twenty four","varchar"],
    "1":["prefix","=","Mr.","enum"]
 }";

How can i get the POSTed data in an Array or Object. i have tried to do

var_dump(json_decode($_POST[‘data’]));
AND
var_dump(json_decode(serialize($_POST[‘data’])));
AND
var_dump(json_decode($_POST[‘data’],true));

but they did not work. Output is null.

Answer 1

json_decode() should do the trick for you, but depending on your server config (if magic_quotes_gpc is on), you might need to use stripslashes() before decoding.