Question

Similarly to the $.post API I do:

$.post('http://...', POST_BODY, function(data) {...});

POST_BODY                            GIVES ME
{name:'test'}                        Empty response
{'name':'test'}                      Empty response
{"name":"test"}                      Empty response
'{"name":"test"}'                    stdClass Object([name] => test)
JSON.stringify({"name":"test"})      stdClass Object([name] => test)

e.g.

$.post('http://...', {name:'test'}, function(data) {...});

My php rest function:

function postContact(...) {
    $request = Slim::getInstance()->request();
    $body= json_decode($request->getBody());
    print_r($body);
}

Why can’t I use object literal as described in jQuery API? Is it my server-side or client-side which is wrong?

Answer 1

You understood this wrong. Passing an object literal will cause jQuery to take each property of the object as a key and turn all values into strings and transform this into post parameters, which have the form key1=val1&key2=val2. And of course that’s no JSON and thus json_decode fails silently.