Re: Parsing AJAX post data -- The Way

On 25-Jan-07, at 7:49 AM, Myron Turner wrote:

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.

Yes, that is the trick, thank you. I didn't realize sending the correct header would then make $_POST do it's magic with "&var=arg into an array", but now it works as desired. Thanks everyone for the assistance. ...Rene