Codeigniter and RESTserver. Send and receive in JSON format

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I am building an API using Codeigniter and Phils RESTServer. I want to send a bounch of email addresses to the API (best in JSON format).

How can I do this? How can I "receive" and "use" the JSON object that is sent to the server?

Right now I can send and receive parameters like this:

[email protected]

and I receive and use them like this:

$this->post('email')

I want to send and receive in this format instead

{"email":"[email protected]"}

How can I achieve this and how can I use the object?

UPDATE: I at least need to be able to send a normal array to the RESTserver.

Thankful for all input!

munjal · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-24 08:36:38Z

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There is an output class in codeigniter. For json encode, you can use this:

 $contents = $this->output
                  ->set_content_type('application/json')
                  ->set_output(json_encode(array('email' => '[email protected]')));

 echo $contents;//{"email":"[email protected]"}

answered Aug 24, 2011 at 8:36

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splitfeed · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-24 08:30:57Z

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How about posting the JSON string to the controller and then using json_decode() to extract the data out if it?

$data = json_decode($this->post('json'));
echo $data['email'];

answered Aug 24, 2011 at 8:30

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