android json post to php

Question

I have done raw rest get and post and also could do post in namevaluepair but no matter which tutorial i follow i just cant get json post done ...

Android Application:

ArrayList<String> stringData = new ArrayList<String>();
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost postMethod = new HttpPost("http://192.168.1.10/people.php");     

JSONObject holder = new JSONObject();
holder.put("name", "Foo");    
holder.put("occupation", "Bar");

StringEntity se = new StringEntity(holder.toString());
postMethod.setEntity(se);
postMethod.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
postMethod.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");

ResponseHandler <String> resonseHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();
String response=httpClient.execute(postMethod,resonseHandler); 
stringData.add(response);

return stringData;

PHP file:

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {

 var_dump($_POST);
}

the var_dump just gives an empty array and $_POST["name"] gives undefined index ... any help would be nice

Nikola Despotoski · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-28 16:10:13Z

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Have you tried to ship the holder.toString() with BasicNameValuePair class?

Like

ArrayList<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("myjson", holder.toString());
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));

then just in your php you get it like

$jsonstring = $_REQUEST['myjson'];

answered Aug 28, 2011 at 16:10

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Nikola Despotoski Over a year ago

Maybe you need to decode it in your php code. If decoding is needed use $jsonstring = urldecode($_REQUEST['myjson'];

code4j Over a year ago

This answer is useful for me :)

Andrej · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-28 16:01:36Z

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Two additional ways to read POST data:

Read from php://input
Use var $HTTP_POST_RAW_DATA.

Look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.httprawpostdata.php

answered Aug 28, 2011 at 16:01

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AbdulFattah Popoola · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-08 19:03:20Z

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I think the problem might be the url you are using.

Post to 10.0.2.2 instead of the one you specified in your http post.

answered Jan 8, 2012 at 19:03

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