PHP: file_get_contents('php://input') returning string for JSON message

Question

I am trying to read in a JSON message in my PHP app and this is my php code:

$json = file_get_contents(\'php://input\');
$obj = json_decode($json, TRUE);
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Answer 1

If you are using javascript to send JSON, to a php file

send_recieve.js

var myObject = JSON.stringify({"name":"John","age":30,"city":"New York"});
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST","http://localhost/dashboard/iwplab/j-comp/receive_send.php",false);
xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-type","application/json");
xhr.onreadystatechange = function(){
    if(xhr.readyState==4){console.log("xhr response:"+xhr.response)}
    alert(xhr.responseText);
 };
 xhr.send(myObject);

recieve_send.php

echo statements work as a response.