Question

I am building an array in JS as such:

       var slots = {}; 

                $(".taken").each(function(item) {

                    var key = $(this).attr("id");
                    slots[key] = "<?php echo $_SESSION['alias']; ?>";

                }); 

                var json = JSON.stringify(slots);
                var date = "<?php echo $_GET['date']; ?>"
             $.ajax({
                type: "POST",
                     url: "controllers/dutyupdate2.php",
                    data:{ array : json, date:  date },
                success : function(response){
                        console.log (response)
                    }//end success
                });//end ajax

In my PHP script I am posting to, I need to decode it to match the following format:

array( 'D1P'=>"JohnC" , 'D6E' => "JohnC")

I get:

Array(
    [D2E] => JohnC
    [D6E] => JohnC
    [D3BU] => JohnC
)

No matter how I decode the array, I get an indexed array with my key as the index.
Am I building the array incorrectly in the JS code or decoding incorrectly?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

This is the format you want, just displayed differently. See this PHP code to verify

$a = array( 'D1P'=>"JohnC" , 'D6E' => "JohnC");
print_r($a);

this gives

Array
(
    [D1P] => JohnC
    [D6E] => JohnC
)

as output. So, there’s no need to try or search anything different.