Parsing AJAX post data -- The Way

m5@renefournier.com / 2007-01-24 23:41:19 -0700:

Just wondering what smart people do for parsing data sent by the Javascript XMLHTTP object--e.g., http.send("post",url,true)... In a normal form submit, the $_POST global nicely allocates form elements as array elements automatically. But with the AJAX way, the data get stuffed inside $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA as a string, thereby making extraction more tedious.

Try setting this header before sending your Ajax request:

http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); Then $_POST should have an array, as expected. But $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA will not be available. -- _____________________ Myron Turner http://www.room535.org http://www.bstatzero.org http://www.mturner.org/XML_PullParser/