AMFPHP Support for JSON POST

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24 July 2009

Written by: Joshua Posted under RIA, AMFPHP, AJAX, JSON

I found myself wanting to use JSON POSTs (not just GETs) with AMFPHP. Here’s the addition.

Open up core\json\app\Gateway.php.

After
$rawArgs = explode('/', $args);

add the following
if(isset($_POST) && count($_POST) > 0) { $len = count($rawArgs); // Check for and remove [last] empty arg from URL '/' explosion if($len && trim($rawArgs[$len-1]) == "") unset($rawArgs[$len-1]);

// Append the POST variables for($i=0;$i $rawArgs[] = $_POST[$i]; }

The format of the post variables would be argNo=value
Ex.
Backend Function
public function ResetPassword($username,$password,$oldpassword) { // Code HERE }

Javascript POST parameters for the latter
request.send("0=" + escape(username) + "&1=" + escape(oldpassword) + "&2=" + escape(newpassword));

Hoping to jump into ZendAMF soon