A quick example of communication with JSON over HTTP using PHP

basic_json.php

<?php
/**
 * Created by PhpStorm.
 * User: Blake Gideon
 * Date: 3/14/15
 * Time: 7:34 PM
 */

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

$name = $incoming_post["clientName"];
# json_encode()
$message = "Thanks for posting Mr: $name";
$response = array("RESPONSE" => $message);
$response = json_encode($response);

echo $response;
exit;
//echo $message;

/* REQUEST:
 *
 * POST /COMP-353-midterm/php_scripts/ajax.php HTTP/1.1
 * Content-Type: application/json
 * Accept: application/json
 * Host: localhost:63342
 * Connection: close
 * User-Agent: Paw/2.1.1 (Macintosh; OS X/10.10.2) GCDHTTPRequest
 * Content-Length: 26
 *
 *  {
 *    "clientName":"Gideon"
 *  }
 *
 *
 * ______________________
 * 
 * HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 * X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.2
 * Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
 * Server: PhpStorm 8.0.3
 * Content-Length: 36
 *
 * {"Thanks for posting Mr: ":"Gideon"}
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * */