PHP does not, to my knowledge, automatically JSON decode the body of the
HTTP request.
Here is something I turned up on Stackoverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14914628/php-decode-json-post

Basically, you cannot use the $_POST variable and will need to decode the
body of the message yourself.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 6:52 PM Dawg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> For the past two weeks I been trying to get this simple script to work
> without any success and  exhausted trying to figure this out.  The script
> isn't  displaying any error messages which makes it that much  harder to
> figure out what it is that I'm doing wrong. When I run the script All i get
> is the square brackets [] result of this line (<pre>{{
> this.userListReceived | json }}).
>
> *I highlighted the problem areas in red as well as a screenshot of the
> chrome console/network*
>
> the script itself isn't doing a lot other then retrieve a record based on
> the search value userName: 'anna'
>
> *Side note:*
> Now if i change the search value in the PHP file to: $findUser =
> $_POST['userName'] = 'anna';
> I get the following results
>
> [{"userID": "3","userName": "anna", "password": "pass3" }]
>
>
> any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> *Component*
> @Component({
>     selector: 'get-userlist',
>     template: `<h2>Testing</h2>
>                <pre>{{ this.userListReceived | json }} </pre>`,
>     providers: [ GetUserListService ]
> })
>
> export class GetUserListComponent implements OnInit {
>     private userListReceived: UserType[];
>     private errMsg1: string;
>
>     constructor(private getUserList: GetUserListService) {}
>
>     getUserListButtonMethod(){
>         this.getUserList.getUserListMethod()
>             .subscribe(
>                 userData => this.userListReceived = userData,
>                 error => this.errMsg1 = <any>error,
>                 ()=>console.log('finished')
>             );
>     }
>
>     ngOnInit(){
>         this.getUserListButtonMethod();
>     }
> }
>
> *service*
> @Injectable()
>
> export class GetUserListService{
>     private userUrl = '
> http://testing.dev/angular/app/services/getUserList.php';
>     private getList: UserType[];
>
>     constructor( private _http: Http){}
>
>     getUserListMethod(): Observable<UserType[]>{
>         let headers = new Headers({ 'Content-Type': 'application/json' });
>         let options = new RequestOptions({ headers: headers });
>
>         *var findU = JSON.stringify({userName: 'anna'});** // problem
> area. assuming findU isn't passed through*
>
>         return this._http
>                 *.post(this.userUrl, findU , options) //problem area*
>                 .map((res: Response) => res.json())
>                 .catch (error => <any>error);
>     } //END - getUserListMethod
> } //END of class
>
> *PHP script*
> <?php
> require_once('dbtesting.php');
> $dbcon = Connection::getConnection();
> *$findUser = $_POST['userName'] ; //problem area, assuming $findUser isn't
> receiving the value in this case userName for search*
> Try{
> $STMT = $dbcon ->prepare("SELECT * FROM tbl_angular
>                                   WHERE userName = '$findUser' ");
> $STMT->execute();
> $getUserlist = $STMT->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
> }
> catch(PDOException $e){ echo 'Unable to find user: ' . $e->getMessage(); }
> echo json_encode($getUserlist);
> ?>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Chrome console & network output
>
>
> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JuDS5d2bgec/WCztuXwoTMI/AAAAAAAAA98/wsEmzOzCY345ydRTgY3WhAN0kPa0NscewCLcB/s1600/prj.PNG>
>
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