AngularJS HTTP post to PHP and undefined output

Posted by bput4all on August 16, 2020 · Leave a Comment 

Angularjs .post() defaults the Content-type header to application/json. This will overide form-encoded data, however it will not change data value to pass an appropriate query string, so PHP is not populating $_POST as you expect.

Solution is use the default angularjs setting of application/json as header, read the raw input in PHP, and then deserialize the JSON.

That can be achieved in PHP like this:

$postdata = file_get_contents("php://input");
$request = json_decode($postdata);
$email = $request->email;
$pass = $request->password;



You can do it on the server side also for $_POST, at the beginning of my init file,

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST' && empty($_POST))
    $_POST = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'), true);

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