$http.post not working in AngularJS

Question

When I use $http.get my code works, but if I use $http.post, I never get the parameters to the request .php file.

This is Service function:

    TestPanel.service('MySampleService', function ($http, $q) {
    this.getAllPosts = function () {       

        var def = $q.defer();
        $http.post('/data/AJAXRequest.php', 'mydata=1&abcd=2').success(function (data) {
            if (data == null)
                def.reject('ERROR: DATA IS NULL');
            else if (data.HasError)
                def.reject('ERROR: ' + data.Message);
            else
                def.resolve(data);
        }).error(function () {
            def.reject('ERROR: Sorry, unable to complete your request.');
        });

        return def.promise;
    }
});

And Controller function:

 TestController.controller('PostCtrl', ['$scope', '$http', 'MySampleService',
    function ($scope, $http, MySampleService) {       

        function FetchPostsList() {
            MySampleService.getAllPosts().then(function (data) {
                $scope.lstPosts = data.ResponseData;
                $scope.totalRecords = data.totalRecords;
                console.info('DATA=' + $scope.lstPosts);
            },
            function (err) {
                console.info('err=' + err);
            });
        }

        FetchPostsList();
    }
]);

and My AJAXRequest.php file

<?php 
   var_dump($_POST)
?>

if I use $http.post()

Output:

 array (size=0)
  empty

If i use $http.get() my output is :

array (size=2)
  'mydata' => string '1' (length=1)
  'abcd' => string '2' (length=1)

I checked the post in FireBug tool, that its sending data to my php file. but php file getting no params.

If I use $.ajax or $.post my code work and it gives the response.

Answer 1

What if you specify the content-type in the headers, specifically like this:

$http({
method: 'POST',
url: '/data/AJAXRequest.php',
data: { mydata: 1, abcd: 2 },
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
}).success(....);

Found comments relating to PHP specifically from this question: AngularJs $http.post() does not send data

It would seem that Angular sends as application/json by default, which can confuse PHP.

Answer 2

I faced the same issue but I found that there is no issue in angular http post method, issue is there where I am trying to get post data.

$params = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'),true);

I used this code to get the posted data from angular and its works like a charm