Angularjs - Form Post Data Not Posted?

Question

I must admit I am a little bit confused... I have never done this before and I am apparently missing something

When I pass data via http.post to my php file I am can

Answer 1

If you want use $_POST in php and don't include jquery and use that functions like $.param(), for pure anjularjs you should modify app.js and add this lines:

.config( [ '$httpProvider',
function ( $httpProvider ) {
    // Use x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Type
    $httpProvider.defaults.headers.post[ 'Content-Type' ] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=utf-8';

    /**
     * The workhorse; converts an object to x-www-form-urlencoded serialization.
     * @param {Object} obj
     * @return {String}
     */
    var param = function ( obj ) {
        var query = '',
            name, value, fullSubName, subName, subValue, innerObj, i;

        for ( name in obj ) {
            value = obj[ name ];

            if ( value instanceof Array ) {
                for ( i = 0; i < value.length; ++i ) {
                    subValue = value[ i ];
                    fullSubName = name + '[' + i + ']';
                    innerObj = {};
                    innerObj[ fullSubName ] = subValue;
                    query += param( innerObj ) + '&';
                }
            } else if ( value instanceof Object ) {
                for ( subName in value ) {
                    subValue = value[ subName ];
                    fullSubName = name + '[' + subName + ']';
                    innerObj = {};
                    innerObj[ fullSubName ] = subValue;
                    query += param( innerObj ) + '&';
                }
            } else if ( value !== undefined && value !== null )
                query += encodeURIComponent( name ) + '=' + encodeURIComponent( value ) + '&';
        }

        return query.length ? query.substr( 0, query.length - 1 ) : query;
    };

    // Override $http service's default transformRequest
    $httpProvider.defaults.transformRequest = [
        function ( data ) {
            return angular.isObject( data ) && String( data ) !== '[object File]' ? param( data ) : data;
        }
    ];
}] )

Answer 2

After doing quite some research I discovered that this is somewhat of a php speciffic issue.. and I found answersa on these two posts..

here: Angular HTTP post to PHP and undefined

and here: http://sebgoo.blogspot.ca/2013/05/angularjs-post-data-to-php.html

My final PHP code looks like this..

        $file = 'form2.txt';

        $postdata = file_get_contents("php://input");
        $data = json_decode($postdata, true);


        $data_insert = "Name: " . $data['firstname'] .
                ", Email: " . $data['emailaddress'] . 
                ", Description: " . $data['textareacontent'] . 
                ", Gender: " . $data['gender'] . 
                ", Is a member: " . $data['member'];


        //print $data_insert;

        file_put_contents($file, $data_insert, FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX);

I would also like to credit Mike Brant (https://stackoverflow.com/users/1529853/mike-brant) whose solution from a referenced stack post was very helpful.. I up-voted his response too.

My angular app code looks something like this... and it is a great improvement from the original one thanks to artur grzesiak (https://stackoverflow.com/users/2956115/artur-grzesiak)

var app = angular.module('myApp', []);

app.controller('FormCtrl', function ($scope, $http) {

var formData = {
    firstname: "default",
    emailaddress: "default",
    textareacontent: "default",
    gender: "default",
    member: false
};


$scope.submitForm = function() {

    $http({

        url: "form2.php",
        data: $scope.form,
        method: 'POST',
        headers : {'Content-Type':'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8'}

    }).success(function(data){

        console.log("OK", data)

    }).error(function(err){"ERR", console.log(err)})
};

});

Finally,, the HTML form that was used to submit this form looks something like this...

<div ng-app="myApp">

    <form ng-controller="FormCtrl" ng-submit="submitForm()">
        First name:    <br/><input type="text" ng-model="form.firstname">    <br/><br/>
        Email Address: <br/><input type="text" ng-model="form.emailaddress"> <br/><br/>
        Description:<br/> <textarea rows="3" cols="25" ng-model="form.textareacontent"></textarea>
            <br/>
        <input type="radio" ng-model="form.gender" value="female" />Female ...
        <input type="radio" ng-model="form.gender" value="male" />Male <br/>
            <br/>
        <input type="checkbox" ng-model="form.member" />Already a member
            <br/>
        <input type="submit" ngClick="Submit" >
    </form>

</div>

Thanks to everyone who helped!