Objective-C->JSON->PHP Array

Question

I\'ve been struggling with this for the last few days; I am trying to post an array to PHP. I can successfully send it, but it\'s not taken in with a post-variable (I am try

Answer 1

It would be better to use below PHP function response would be in stdobject

parse_str(file_get_contents("php://input"), $data);

$d = json_decode(json_encode($data));

Answer 2

On the PHP side, I've used something similar to your first example:

<?php

$handle = fopen("php://input", "rb");
$http_raw_post_data = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
    $http_raw_post_data .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);

// do what you want with it
//
// For diagnostic purposes, I'm just going to decode, make sure I got an array, 
// and respond with JSON that includes status, code, and the original request

$post_data = json_decode($http_raw_post_data,true);

if (is_array($post_data))
    $response = array("status" => "ok", "code" => 0, "original request" => $post_data);
else
    $response = array("status" => "error", "code" => -1, "original_request" => $post_data);

$processed = json_encode($response);
echo $processed;

?>

And then on the iOS side, I use:

// create the dictionary (or array)

NSDictionary *dictionary = @{@"a": @"One", @"b": @"Two", @"c": @"Three"};
NSError *error = nil;
NSData *data = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:dictionary options:0 error:&error];
if (error)
    NSLog(@"%s: JSON encode error: %@", __FUNCTION__, error);

// create the request

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"your.url.here"];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request setValue:@"application/json; charset=utf-8" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
[request setHTTPBody:data];

// issue the request

NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSData *returnData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (error)
    NSLog(@"%s: NSURLConnection error: %@", __FUNCTION__, error);

// examine the response

NSString *responseString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:returnData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"responseString: %@",responseString);

I just tested this round trip, and it works fine.

---

If you are determined to use the _POST technique, what works for me is to set the the data to be json=%@, such as:

NSDictionary *dictionary = ...
NSData *data = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:dictionary options:0 error:&error];
NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
if (error)
    NSLog(@"%s: JSON encode error: %@", __FUNCTION__, error);

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"your.url.here"];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];

[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
NSString *params = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"json=%@",
                    [string stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSData *paramsData = [params dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
[request addValue:@"8bit" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Transfer-Encoding"];
[request addValue:@"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
[request setHTTPBody:paramsData];

// now send the request, like before

And the PHP to parse it is much like you had:

$http_raw_post_data = $_POST['json'];

$post_data = json_decode(stripslashes($http_raw_post_data),true);

if (is_array($post_data))
    $response = array("status" => "ok", "code" => 0, "original request" => $post_data);
else
    $response = array("status" => "error", "code" => -1, "original_request" => $post_data);

$processed = json_encode($response);
echo $processed;