How to pass multi-dimensional array with Jquery AJAX post?
I did not find any good solution, so i solved this using JSON.stringify(); here is my code
Client side :
var data = {a:{'foo':'bar'},b:{'this':'that'}};
$.ajax({ url : '/',
type : 'POST',
data : {'data':JSON.stringify(data)},
success : function(){ }
});
Server Side:
$data = json_decode($_POST['data']);
print_r($data);
// Result:
// Array( "a" => Array("foo"=> "bar"), "b" => Array("that" => "this"))
Jquery will take multi dimensional arrays directly, no need to serialize.
var data = {
foo: 123,
bar: 456,
rows: [
{
column1 : 'hello',
column2 : 'hola',
column3 : 'bonjour',
},
{
column1 : 'goodbye',
column2 : 'hasta luego',
column3 : 'au revoir',
},
],
test1:{
test2: {
test3: 'baz'
}
}
};
_Post Data in your PHP file would look like this
Array
(
[foo] => 123
[bar] => 456
[rows] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[column1] => hello
[column2] => hola
[column3] => bonjour
)
[1] => Array
(
[column1] => goodbye
[column2] => hasta luego
[column3] => au revoir
)
)
[test1] => Array
(
[test2] => Array
(
[test3] => baz
)
)
)
Once you define your data multidimensional array, your Ajax could be as simple as
$.ajax({
type: 'post',
cache: false,
url: './ajax.php',
data: data
});
If your post array may have fields that you don't know about, you can access your Post array in your php file easily with
$data = file_get_contents('php://input');
$data = json_decode($data, true);
$.post(url, {"myarray":arrayData}, function(data){/*stuff*/}, 'json');
server side you would access it for example with php
$myArray = $_POST['myarray'][0];
foreach($myArray as $item)
{
/*logic here for picking apart your array*/
}