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Laravel 5.1 - Posting and Retrieving JSON

This is how you can use jQuery to POST data and retrieve it within the controllers. To Send Data: First off on the page where you are POSTing data from, you need to have a CSRF_TOKEN as a meta tag. <meta name="csrf_token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}" /> Then in the JavaScript, pull the token and send it along with the POST as headers. <script type="text/javascript"> var CSRF_TOKEN = $('meta[name="csrf_token"]').attr('content');    var jsonData = "{ 'data' : 'data' }";   $.ajax({     url: '/route/path',         type: 'POST',     data: jsonData,     headers: {      'X-CSRF-TOKEN': CSRF_TOKEN     },        dataType: 'JSON',     success: function (data) { } }); </script> To Retrieve Data: Setup a post route in /app/Http/routes.php Route::post('/route/path', 'ControllerName@controllerMethod' ); Then setup the controller