Could you use get.JSON?
http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/jQuery.getJSON
You could of course also use post, but for quickies I use get:
$.getJSON("example.php", { name: "John", time: "2pm" }, function(json) {
alert("JSON Data: " + json.users[3].name);
});
In the above, example.com/?name=John&time=2pm is what will be sent
along.
If you are just reading data, I would use getJSON, if you are going to
have your php script do updating and other things, look at.post() like
you are.
My understanding of serialize is that it will convert input elements
to name=value pairs. Since you already have an array, it sounds to me
like you just need to convert it to a url ready format.
if you want to convert it to JSON, I believe you use serializeArray
instead
http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/serializeArray
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On Sep 26, 2009, at 3:44 AM, Althalos wrote:
I have an array in a Javascript/jQuery code, and I want to pass it to
a php file. It has an arbitrary number of elements in it. So I figured
I would use $.post, HOWEVER, I'm sure how I would convert my array
into a suitable data-string?
$.post("test.php", data); << what should data be when I want to pass
an entire array?
I looked around a bit on Google and I found the function serialize
which seems to do what I want. But it only works on forms and not on
arrays...
