Sending url string via AJAX to PHP

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I want to send URL's string via PHP (this must return a JSON), but I guess there is an encoding issue. I use file_get_contents("php://input") in my PHP to get the string of this URL, but it's impossible. This code is working when I am sending a JSON to PHP. Is there an encoding problem?

var urlString='https://google.com';

 $.ajax({
    type        : 'POST',
    url         : 'https://example.php',
    //contentType: 'application/json',
    data: urlString ,                    //I want to send this
    dataType: 'json'
    
    });

Steven Carlton · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-22 16:41:53Z

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I think the issue is with your formatting of urlString.

Normally you would want to form it with a key and value, such as:

var urlString = 'url=https://google.com';

The url you are POSTing data to will usually require that key.

answered Apr 22, 2020 at 16:41

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John · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-01 02:47:21Z

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data for ajax needs to be in json format

var urlString='https://google.com';

$.ajax({
type        : 'POST',
url         : 'https://example.php',
data: {"url":urlString} ,                 
dataType: 'json'

});

then in your php use $url = $_POST["url"];

edited May 1, 2020 at 2:47

answered Apr 22, 2020 at 16:54

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Thiago Guimarães · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-22 16:39:59Z

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Try:

$url = file_get_contents('your-url', false);
$json = json_decode($url, true);
$var = implode(" ",$json);

answered Apr 22, 2020 at 16:39

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