I need to write a script that receives and parses a JSON array within the POST array. In order to do this, I'm first trying to just send any old JSON data to my script so I have something to work with.
My receiving script is in PHP (but alternately could be done in Javascript.) Right now, I'm just serializing the POST array and writing it to a text file to make sure something is coming in. What it's writing is an empty array, though.
I'm trying to send the data using an ajax request. This is what I have at the moment:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
var jsondata = JSON.stringify({
val1:"this",
val2:"that"
});
$.ajax({
url: "http://api.mydomain.com/test/index.php",
method: "POST",
data: {json: jsondata},
contentType: "application/json",
success: function(data){alert(JSON.stringify(data));},
error: function(errMsg) {
alert(JSON.stringify(errMsg));
}
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
I've tried lots of variations on this, too, including
- not stringifying jsondata
- changing data to this:
data: jsondata - using
type:instead ofmethod:in the request - including
datatype: "json"in the request
and some other variations I can't even remember at this point. Am I missing something simple? Or is there an easier way to accomplish this?
EDIT: adding my index.php file
if (isset($_POST)){
// This line is commented out because it breaks it.
//$jspost = json_decode($_POST['json']);
$jsser = serialize($_POST);
echo "I'm here.";
// Write to text file
$myfile = "response.txt";
$fh = fopen($myfile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$now = date("n/j/y g:i:s a");
fwrite($fh, $now."
");
fwrite($fh, "I received a POST.
");
fwrite($fh, $jsser);
fwrite($fh, "
");
fclose($fh);
}
