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loamguy1 · 10-05-2012, 03:14 PM

Eventually found the solution to this:

If you use JSON in a POST to a REST service, the JSON object is not treated as a valid query string. So, the POST array will exist, but it will be empty.

Here is the work-around:

$post_vars = file_get_contents('php://input');

// Second parm TRUE, decodes into associative array
$data = json_decode($post_vars, TRUE);

10-05-2012, 03:14 PM	PM User \| #2
loamguy1 Regular Coder Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 106 Thanks: 13 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Eventually found the solution to this: If you use JSON in a POST to a REST service, the JSON object is not treated as a valid query string. So, the POST array will exist, but it will be empty. Here is the work-around: $post_vars = file_get_contents('php://input'); // Second parm TRUE, decodes into associative array $data = json_decode($post_vars, TRUE);