Question

I am sending a CSV list to the server within the url. It is a list of songid’s:

var $array = [];


        oTable.find('td').each(function(){

            $songdata = $(this).data('data');
            $songid = $songdata.songid;

    //The next line is the variable I need to also send along with each songid
            $duration = $songdata.duration;


            $array.push($songid)



            });

This results in ‘24,25,32,48,87’ being sent to the server.

I then use the following in my php script to convert it into an array:

 $songs = $_GET['songid'];

 $songarray = explode(",", $songs);

This works great, I can access the data properly and all is well.

However I now have the need to add another property to each of the songid’s. As seen above, I need to add the $duration variable to the data sent and be able to convert it into an array server side. (or alternatively construct the actual array client side would be fine also)

How would I go about this?

Answer 1

You could use this to encode your array into JSON:
http://www.openjs.com/scripts/data/json_encode.php

And then send that String to your backend where you can unpack it with this:

$yourarray = json_decode($string)