Angular.js: get post-data in $_POST variable - php

Question

I'm quite new to angular.js. Now I try to post some data to a PHP-Script.
angular.js:
var app = angular.module('app', []);
app.controller('sendData', function($scope, $http) {
$http.post("script.php", {'value': 'one'} )
.success(function (response) {
console.log(response);
});
});
PHP:
$data = json_decode(file_get_contents("php://input"));
So I would get the data in $data->value.
Is it possible to modify the script (without using $.param of JQuery), so I could access the post-data with $_POST['value'] - as I would normally do that in PHP?

Answer 1

$_POST is for using application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data as the HTTP Content-Type in the request
See: http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.post.php
So, in order to use x-www-form-urlencoded (and $_POST), you must serialize your data properly whether you are using the $.param function or another serialize method.
This is how we do it, although like I said, you can use a different function than $.param if you need to.
$http({
method: "post",
url: url,
data: $.param(data),
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
})
Here is a vanilla js method of serialization:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/1714899/580487