Question

I want to send the result of a HTML sorting to the server by serializing with jQuery.
This works if I only send the result:

var result = $(this).sortable('serialize');

$.ajax({
    type: 'POST',
    url: '/cms/update/',
    data: result,
});

But I try to send a Javascript Object to the server wich contains the serialized ‘result’

In PHP I get an array with result_2 as the serialize object:

Array
(
    [ids_1] => miti_1_ti_2_col_2
    [article_id] => article_id_2
    [result_1] => 
    [ids_2] => miti_1_ti_2_col_1
    [result_2] => article_id[]=2
)

How can I get this result to be an array in PHP?

Answer 1

As I understood “result” is a serialized object too.

So you have to unserialize result at first.

Then you have to unserialize result2. Something like that:

$res1 = unserialize($data);
if (isset($res1['result_2']){
   $res2 = unserialize($res['result_2']);
}

Updated:

I don’t know if your result_2 in data is already serialized. Therefore here are two examples:

if result_2 is not serialized in data:

$arr = array('id_1' => 'miti_1_ti_2_col_2',
             'article_id' => 'article_id_2',
             'result_1' => '',
             'ids_2' => 'miti_1_ti_2_col_1'
            );

$arr['result_2'] = $arr;

$test1 = serialize($arr);
$test1 = unserialize($test1);

If result_2 is already serialized in data:

$arr = array('id_1' => 'miti_1_ti_2_col_2',
             'article_id' => 'article_id_2',
             'result_1' => '',
             'ids_2' => 'miti_1_ti_2_col_1'
            );

$arr['result_2'] = serialize($arr);

$test2 = serialize($arr);
$test2 = unserialize($test2);

$test2['result_2'] = unserialize($test2['result_2']);

This code works I checked out it. If your code still doesn’t work check result in JS.