Question

I need to pass an array of numeric values from jQuery to a php file. I fill this array in my code using the following line:

Area_Array.push({name: 'A[]', value: ui.value});

Then I serialize the array to use it in an URL

$.param(Area_Array);

I can see that the array is built correctly using:

alert(decodeURIComponent($.param(Area_Array)));

which returns, for instance, the following:

A[]=0&A[]=1&A[]=2

that is fine for me, but I don’t know now how to insert it inside my $.get which is also sending another parameters:

$.get("some.php", { b1 : 0, b2 : 5, b3: 20, b4 : 1},function(foo){});

But I want my built URL to have the following structure:

http://somehost/some.php?b1=0&b2=5&b3=20&b4=1&A[]=0&A[]=1&A[]=2

Could you please help me?

Thank you!!! 🙂

Alexandra

Answer 1

I suggest that you directly add the values to the array

Area_Array.push(ui.value);

and then set it as parameter:

$.get("some.php", {b1: 0, b2: 5, b3: 20, b4: 1, A: Area_Array},...);

There is no need to call $.param directly. E.g. the setup above would generate this query string (if Area_Array was [1, 2, 3]):

b1=0&b2=5&b3=20&b4=1&A[]=1&A[]=2&A[]=3

jQuery takes care of encoding arrays correctly.