PHP doesn't receive data sent from $http.post

Question

I have a function inside an AngularJS controller that let me send POST data to a PHP page (it should be for authentication)

$scope.submit = function () {
    $http.post(api + 'login.php', $scope.user)
};

This function is called from this HTML code

<div>
    <span ng-show="isAuthenticated">{{welcome}}</span>
    <form ng-show="!isAuthenticated" ng-submit="submit()">
        <input ng-model="user.username" type="text" name="user" placeholder="Username" />
        <input ng-model="user.password" type="password" name="pass" placeholder="Password" />
        <input type="submit" value="Login" />
    </form>
    <div>{{error}}</div>
    <div ng-show="isAuthenticated">
        <a ng-click="logout()" href="">Logout</a>
    </div>
</div>

Using Firebug inside Firefox I can see that auth page is called and POST data is sent correctly

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Problem raises within my auth PHP code: I try to retrieve POST data, but array is empty.
I've also tried to write content in a file and I can confirm array is empty (file contains [])

$userdata = $_POST;
file_put_contents("login.txt",json_encode($userdata)."\n", FILE_APPEND);

What's wrong with my code? I've also tried changing from POST to GET (using $http.get), but $_GET array is empty too...

can you then post var_dump(file_get_contents("php://input"))? — Tivie
– Tivie, Commented Feb 12, 2015 at 16:57

dave · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-12 16:56:21Z

8

Angular sends data over as json, not as form data, to retrieve it you can do something like:

$_JSON = json_decode(file_get_contents("php://input"), true);

answered Feb 12, 2015 at 16:56

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2 Comments

Marco Over a year ago

Never in my life I could have imagined this... I've lost hours for this. Thank you so much!

Kai Qing Over a year ago

Never in my life would I have imagined this either. Good to know for future projects as angular is about to be added to the company library list. You may have just saved me hours.

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