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Alec Smart
Alec Smart

Reputation: 95880

jQuery post array

Am wondering how to post an array using $.ajax. My array is something like this:

var a = new Array();
a['test'] = 1;
a['test2'] = 2;
and so on...

I tried:

$.ajax({
  url: baseUrl+"chat.php",
  data: { vars: a},
  type: 'post',
  success: function(data) {
alert(data);
}});

Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 24

Views: 98140

Answers (5)

Alex from Jitbit
Alex from Jitbit

Reputation: 60556

Shortest version

$.post(url, { 'test[]': myArray });

Server side: $myArray = $_POST['test'];

Upvotes: 1

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 689

I prefer doing it this way:

ie.

var data = [{ name: 'test1', value: 'test data' }, { name: 'test2', value: 'test data' }];

$.ajax({  
    type: 'POST',
    url:  'url',
    data: data,
   });

Server side (PHP): $_POST['test1']; $_POST['test2'];

Upvotes: 6

Aldo
Aldo

Reputation: 301

I used this:

var newArray = new Array();
newArray.push("item1");
newArray.push("item2");
newArray.push("item3");

$.ajax({  
    type: "POST",
    url: urlToPost,
    data: JSON.stringify(newArray),
    contentType: "application/json"
   });

Upvotes: 17

nightcoder
nightcoder

Reputation: 13509

Here is an example how I pass arrays (from real-life code) :

$.ajax({
  type: 'POST',
  url: url,
  data: { CartID : cartID, 'Manufacturers[]' : manufacturers, 'PartNumbers[]' : partNumbers },
  success: function(res)
  {
    ...
  },
  dataType: "json",
  async: false
});

then on the server-side:

$cartID = $_POST['CartID'];
$manufacturers = $_POST['Manufacturers'];
$partNumbers = $_POST['PartNumbers'];

Upvotes: 3

Ionuț G. Stan
Ionuț G. Stan

Reputation: 179109

Try this one:

var a = {};
a['test'] = 1;
a['test2'] = 2;

// or


var a = {};
a.test = 1;
a.test2 = 2;

// or


var a = {
    test : 1,
    test2 : 2
};

$.ajax({
  url: baseUrl+"chat.php",
  data: a,
  type: 'post',
  success: function(data) {
    alert(data);
  }
});

You may then access the data in your PHP script like this:

$_POST['test'];
$_POST['test2'];

Upvotes: 43

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