Question

I’m passing a JSON encoded data from my flash file to php i traced the data output using firebug and i see it’s being passed along to php but when i try to return the values back to flash through php i get an empty string can some one expalin why php is behaving like that? here is the code

<?php

$data = urldecode(utf8_decode(stripslashes($_REQUEST['data']))); 

$decoded_result = json_decode($data);

print_r($decoded_result);
echo output.'='.$decoded_result;

?>

Answer 1

Did you miss a $ in the output variable name?

Come to think of it, where is the $output variable name? is there even one?

Also, you’re invoking json_decode, which decodes JSON into native PHP objects, which don’t have an implicit string representation, which will look weird when you do coerce it to a string, I think you meant to just output the JSON decoded from the data $_REQUEST hash, there is no use in returning a PHP object to the client.

Maybe you meant to do this:

<?php

   $data = urldecode(utf8_decode(stripslashes($_REQUEST['data']))); 

   header('Content-type: application/json');    
   echo $data; //according to your logic, $data already contains JSON, so just output it.

?>