Passing jquery variable with json

Question

I am trying to pass a jquery string to my cakephp controller but I keep getting an error saying json_decode expects a string but is passed an array.

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Answer 1

try this:

var str = 'Data that i need';

var jsonString = JSON.stringify(str);

var DataToSend = {};
DataToSend.data = JSON.stringify(jsonString);

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "http:/Configs/",
    cache: false,
    datatype: 'json',
    data: JSON.stringify(DataToSend),
    timeout: 100000,

    success: function(data) 
    {
        alert('Ok');
    }
});

Answer 2

Are you sure the url you use is correct? If you are using CakePHP, then why don't you work with $this->request->data?

Try to debug your code with

pr($_POST); exit;

or

pr($this->request); exit;

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