Question

I have a JSON Object

{ 
    "widgetSettings":[{"maxDisplay": 6, "maxPerRow": 2}],
    "widgets": [
        {"wigetID": 1, "show": false, "weight": 0, "widgetTitle": "Widget 1", "widgetColor": "defualt"},
        {"wigetID": 2, "show": false, "weight": 0, "widgetTitle": "Widget 2", "widgetColor": "defualt"},
        {"wigetID": 3, "show": false, "weight": 0, "widgetTitle": "Widget 3", "widgetColor": "defualt"},
        {"wigetID": 4, "show": false, "weight": 0, "widgetTitle": "Widget 4", "widgetColor": "defualt"},
        {"wigetID": 5, "show": false, "weight": 0, "widgetTitle": "Widget 5", "widgetColor": "defualt"},
        {"wigetID": 6, "show": false, "weight": 0, "widgetTitle": "Widget 6", "widgetColor": "defualt"},
        {"wigetID": 7, "show": false, "weight": 0, "widgetTitle": "Widget 7", "widgetColor": "defualt"},
        {"wigetID": 8, "show": false, "weight": 0, "widgetTitle": "Widget 8", "widgetColor": "defualt"},
        {"wigetID": 9, "show": false, "weight": 0, "widgetTitle": "Widget 9", "widgetColor": "defualt"},
        {"wigetID": 10, "show": false, "weight": 0, "widgetTitle": "Widget 10", "widgetColor": "defualt"},
        {"wigetID": 11, "show": false, "weight": 0, "widgetTitle": "Widget 11", "widgetColor": "defualt"},
        {"wigetID": 12, "show": false, "weight": 0, "widgetTitle": "Widget 12", "widgetColor": "defualt"},
        {"wigetID": 13, "show": false, "weight": 0, "widgetTitle": "Widget 13", "widgetColor": "defualt"},
        {"wigetID": 14, "show": false, "weight": 0, "widgetTitle": "Widget 14", "widgetColor": "defualt"},
        {"wigetID": 15, "show": false, "weight": 0, "widgetTitle": "Widget 15", "widgetColor": "defualt"},
        {"wigetID": 16, "show": false, "weight": 0, "widgetTitle": "Widget 16", "widgetColor": "defualt"} 
]}

I want to with jQuery to post that to a server side script so I can save it in a DB. And when I say save it I mean as the JSON object. However seeing as when you make a post/get other the way its posted is a JSON format my JSON that I am posting so I can save in the DB, gets lost it seems and the DB gets left with an empty value. Any ideas to what I may be doing wrong.. heres the jQuery portion.

$.post('ui-DashboardWidgetsPost.php', {"dashWidgets":dashboardJSON}, function(msg)
    {
        if(msg.error == "yes"){console.log('Error Found: '+ msg.errorMsg);}
        else
        {
        }
    });

EDIT
The PHP

<?php
$validJSON = $_POST['dashWidgets'];

mysql_connect("127.0.0.1", "", "") or die('{"error": "yes", "errormsg": "'.mysql_error().'"}');
mysql_select_db("xxxx") or die('{"error": "yes", "errormsg": "'.mysql_error().'"}');

$result = mysql_query("UPDATE dashboardPrefs SET widgetSettings='".$validJSON."' WHERE userID=100") 
or die('{"error": "yes", "errormsg": "'.mysql_error().'"}');

echo '{"error": "none"}';
?>

Answer 1

If you want to send the JSON (as string, not the actual values) to the DB, perhaps you should treat it as one?

$.post('ui-DashboardWidgetsPost.php', {
    json: dashboardJSON
}, function(msg) {
    msg=jQuery.parseJSON(msg);
    if (msg.error == "yes") {
        console.log('Error Found: ' + msg.errorMsg);
    } else { ... }
});