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Question

I\'ve read a few questions about the subject here on but couldn\'t find the answer I\'m looking for. I\'m doing some $.post with jQuery to a PHP5.6 server.

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Answer 1

In order to send raw json data, you have to stop jQuery from url-encoding it:

    data = {"a":"test", "b":{"c":123}};

    $.ajax({
        type: 'POST',
        url:  '...',
        data: JSON.stringify(data), // I encode it myself
        processData: false          // please, jQuery, don't bother
    });

On the php side, just read php://input and json_decode it:

$req = file_get_contents("php://input");
$req = json_decode($req);