I send an XMLHttp Request to a PHP server. I cannot get hte $_POST or $_REQUEST object filled with the data I send using Javascript:
var r = new XMLHttpRequest;
r.open("POST", "http://url.com", true);
r.send({ myname : 'someName'});
I cannot access myname property in the $_POST array, though I see in php://input. How should I have it in $_POST as well? I have tried to send the data like this:
r.send(JSON.stringify({ myname : 'someName'}));
But it does neither work.
PHP will not populate $_POST for an application/json request.
(You aren't actually sending a proper JSON request because you forgot to set the Content-Type header on your XHR object, but the data will be invalid in any other format so the end result is the same.)
It will only do so for application/x-www-form-urlencoded and multipart/form-data data.
If you want to populate $_POST then don't use JSON as your data format. (You could use JSON embedded in the URL Encoded format, but that would just give you a string representation of a JSON text in $_POST['json'] and wouldn't give you direct access to the data encoded in the JSON.
Try this
var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.open("POST", "http://url.com", true);
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json;charset=UTF-8");
xmlhttp.send(JSON.stringify({ myname : "someName"}));
$_POST though, which is what the question is asking about.This should work:
r.open('POST','http://url.com',true);
r.setRequestHeader('Content-type','application/json; charset=utf-8');
r.setRequestHeader("Content-length", string.length);
r.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
r.send({ myname : 'someName'});
$_POST though, which is what the question is asking about.