Question

I have the following Request.JSON in my clientside (notice the conversion to a JSON string with MooTools’ own JSON parser):

var data = {action: 'delete', data: { id: item} };
data = JSON.encode(data);

var aRequest = new Request.JSON({
                onSuccess : (function(json) {
                    ...
                }).bind(this),
                onFailure : (function(e) {
                    ...
                }).bind(this),
                onError : (function(text, error) {
                    ...
                }).bind(this),
                url : "../sd_delete.php",
                method : "post",
                data: data,
                urlEncoded: false
            });
    aRequest.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8');
    aRequest.send();

Now, on the server side, both $_REQUEST and $_POST are empty arrays. How do I access the string I sent with Request.JSON? Or is there something flawed in my clientside approach?

Thanks

EDIT: Just found out that, even if I send the data as an object (without JSON.encode), there is no POST data on the server side. GET works. Might be a serverside problem?!

Answer 1

Following should work.

var data = {action: 'delete', data: { id: item} };

var aRequest = new Request.JSON({
    url : "../sd_delete.php",
    onComplete: function(pResponse) {
        console.log(pResponse);
    }.bind(this)
}).post(data);

You’ll then receive post data as following in php:

echo $_POST['action'];