Sending Multidimentional array data, with ajax, to a php script

Question

I have two simple scripts. One client-side jquery that has multidim array & a server-side php script. in php $data stays empty.

jquery

console.log("IN JQUERY");
console.log(inps);
$.ajax({
 type: 'post',
 cache: false,
 url: './gen.php',
 data: inps,
 success: function(response){
 console.log("RESPONSE");
 console.log(response);
 }
});

gen.php

<?php
$data = file_get_contents('php://input');
$data = json_decode($data, true);
print_r($data);
?>

firefox console output

>POST ..././gen.php [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 1ms]
>"IN JQUERY" 
>{isbranch: "1", ismanager: "0", isdept: "1"} 
>"RESPONSE" 
>""

Is there a way to send Multi Dimensional array to the php with ajax without spliting array?

• kero: What do you get from var_dump($_POST);?
• user2102266: @kingero exact console-output : "<pre class='xdebug-var-dump' dir='ltr'><font color='#3465a4'>null</font> </pre>"

Answer 1

You should use JSON.stringify to encode your data before send it, also better to add correct contentType to it:

$.ajax({
 type: 'post',
 cache: false,
 url: '/gen.php',
 data: JSON.stringify(inps),
 contentType: 'application/json',
 success: function(response){
 console.log("RESPONSE");
 console.log(response);
 }
});

• user2102266: ...perfect "IN JQUERY" test:515 {isbranch: "0", ismanager: "1", isdept: "0"} test:516 "RESPONSE" test:525 "Array ( [isbranch] => 0 [ismanager] => 1 [isdept] => 0 ) "

Answer 2

The key-value pairs should already exist in your $_POST

$isbranch = $_POST['isbranch'];
$ismanager = $_POST['ismanager'];
$isdept = $_POST['isdept'];