Question

I’m sending the following info to a php file. data contains ‘one’ and ‘two’. ‘One’ contains the serialized form and two contains similar custom info. How can i read those post values with php. I want to be able to differentiated between the value contained in one and value contains into two.

$('form').submit(function() {
     x = $(this).serialize(),
     test = 'testing=whatever&something=else';
    $.ajax({
        type: 'POST',
        data: {'one':x, 'two':test}
        ...
    })
})

How can i read the values in php in such a way where i can do

$one = $_POST['one'];
foreach($one as $key=>$value){ $message.= $key.": ".$value."\r\n"; }

Answer 1

I’m not sure what you want to do with the serialised version of the form (x) but you can get access to both of the variables in the receiving PHP script using $_POST as per usual and then probably use parse_str (http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-str.php) to break ‘test’ out into the various parameters, but I question why you are taking this route instead of breaking the parameters up and passing them as individual arguments in the data argument:

data: {'testing' : whatever, 'something' : else}