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Asked: 2026-05-27T17:42:05+00:00

I have an AJAX request on a php file, which returns some data, like

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I have an AJAX request on a php file, which returns some data, like this:

21-12-12:::visits;45;;pageviews;344—22-10-10:::visits;71;;pageviews;34—15-01-11:::visits;4;;pageviews;30

Notice the pattern^^ It’s like a multidimensional array, but only not an array, just a string.

I need a way to separate that string, and use the value of visits and pageviews for each date.

I already know how to split the string up in JQuery, but i have no idea how to get the value of visits for a specific date from that string, example, get the number of visits for the date 15-01-11.

Any suggestions or better alternatives would be great. Please don’t mention JSON though, I’ve just given up with that.

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  1. Editorial Team

    JSON is the alternative and extremely easy since you are using PHP and jQuery. Actually, everything else would be either a huge mess (parsing a string like you want to do) or much more complicated (using XML instead of JSON).

    In your PHP code you simply echo json_encode($arrayWithYourData); and the response argument of your AJAX success callback will contain the same object.

    Since you want to get data for a certain date, you might want to use the data as the array key – then you can just use e.g. response['01-01-01'] to access the corresponding array element.

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