Laravel 5 Retrieve JSON array from request

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I m a Laravel newbie and I m converting a php jquery app to Laravel  The original code used a JSON array with an ajax POST  which was retrieved like this    json   file get contents  php   input     data   json decode  json true     I m doing much the same thing on the POST side  but I don t see any data coming through in my Laravel  request collection  Is there something special that I need to do to retrieve JSON data structured like this            name    John    location    Boston             name    Dave    location    Lancaster        Here is my jQuery ajax POST code  with hard coded data     ajax       type   POST       url    people       data       name    John    location    Boston        name    Dave    location    Lancaster           dataType   json       success function data                save message   html data message                Here is the code in my Controller that receives the POST  public function store Request  request        dd  request- gt all         But all I get is           Any ideas on how I can retreive my data

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My jQuery ajax settings            ajax           headers    X-CSRF-TOKEN      meta name  quot csrf-token quot     attr  content             url  url          dataType   quot json quot           type   quot post quot           data  params          success  function  resp                                       error  responseFunc          And now i am able to get the request via  request- gt all   in Laravel dataType   quot json quot   is the important part in the ajax request to handle the response as an json object and not string

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As of Laravel 5 2   you can fetch it directly with  request- gt input  item   as well      Retrieving JSON Input Values      When sending JSON requests to your application  you may access the   JSON data via the input method as long as the Content-Type header of   the request is properly set to application json  You may even use    dot  syntax to dig deeper into JSON arrays        name    request- input  user name      https   laravel com docs 5 2 requests  As noted above  the content-type header must be set to application json so the jQuery ajax call would need to include contentType   application json      ajax       type   POST       url    people       data       name    John    location    Boston        name    Dave    location    Lancaster           dataType   json       contentType   application json       success function data                save message   html data message                By fixing the AJAX call   request- gt all   should work

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You need to change your Ajax call to    ajax       type   POST       url    people       data       name    John    location    Boston        name    Dave    location    Lancaster           contentType   json       processData  false      success function data                save message   html data message                change the dataType to contentType and add the processData option   To retrieve the JSON payload from your controller  use   dd json decode  request- gt getContent    true      instead of   dd  request- gt all

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postbody         Check for presence of a body in the request  if  count  request- gt json  - gt all             postbody    request- gt json  - gt all         This is how it s done in laravel 5 2 now

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Just a mention with jQuery v3 2 1 and Laravel 5 6       Case 1  The JS object posted directly  like     post  url    name  John    function  data           Corresponding Laravel PHP code should be   parse str  request- gt getContent    data     JSON will be parsed to object  data   Case 2  The JSON string posted  like     post  url   JSON stringify  name  John     function  data           Corresponding Laravel PHP code should be    data   json decode  request- gt getContent    true

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You can use getContent   method on Request object     request- gt getContent     json as a string

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