Question

I have form something like that:

    <form id="incomes" method="post" action="#">
      <input type="text" name="date[]"/>
      <input type="text" name="income[]"/>
      <input type="text" name="tax[]"/>
      <input type="text" name="social_insurance[]"/>
      <input type="text" name="health_insurance[]"/>
    </form>

All I want to do is to post that inputs via jQuery ajax to php in structure like this:

Array(
    [0] => Array(
        date => 2012-12-10
        income => 1000
        tax => 100
        social_insurance => 50
        health_insurance => 50
    )
    [1] Array(
        date => 2012-12-15
        income => 2000
        tax => 150
        social_insurance => 20
        health_insurance => 50
    )
)

Is there any simple way to achieve that? I’ve heard about serialize() function but that isn’t what I want to…

Answer 1

I do it myself all the time but I do it on the PHP side looping through an array:

$newarray = array();
foreach($_POST["date"] AS $i => $date) {
    $newarray[$i]["date"] = $date;
}

and so on..

So you keep sending your data via ajax as it is and do everything on server side, there you can sort and do whatever you need to the array before processing and outputting the result