Question

Sorry for poor english 🙂

I was trying to post form in json format for the restapi written in php/python. I cannot access posted data if i use json . See the scenario below

The code for non json post

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
     $.post(  
        "http://localhost:8000/api/v1/entry/?format=json",  
        {
        "body": "This will prbbly be my lst edited  post.",
        "pub_date": "2011-05-22T00:46:38",
        "slug": "another-post",
        "title": "Another Post",
        "username":"admin",
        "password":"admin"


        },  
        function(responseText){  
            $("#result").html(responseText);  
        },  
        "html"  
    );
  }) 

Server response

 Array
 (
 [body] => This will prbbly be my lst edited  post.
 [pub_date] => 2011-05-22T00:46:38
 [slug] => another-post
 [title] => Another Post
 [username] => admin
 [password] => admin
 )  

Code for Json Post

  jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
   var data = JSON.stringify({
    "body": "This will prbbly be my lst edited  post.",
    "pub_date": "2011-05-22T00:46:38",
    "slug": "another-post",
    "title": "Another Post",
"username":"admin",
"password":"admin"


});

 $.post(  
        "testpost.php",  
        data,  
        function(responseText){  
            $("#result").html(responseText);  
        },  
        "html"  
    );
  }) 

Server response

Array
(
)

Answer 1

Well, you havent assigned the value to any parameter, hence PHP won’t be able to populate the $_POST array.

Assign it to a parameter, for example, json:

$.post("testpost.php", {json: data}, ...);

Then you will be able to access it with:

$_POST['json'];

Or if you use PECL, you can call http_get_request_body ^[docs] to get the data.