Question

I’m trying to GET some data from a site using jQuery $.get. I need to set 2 parameters of the same type:

..&q=Some Text&q=Some other text

jQuery appears to be overwriting the first instance of q with the second and only sending 1. Any way around this?

This is the code I was trying to use:

var params = {
       "otherParam":"x",
       "q":text,
       "q":title
};
$.get(url, params, mySuccessFunction);

Answer 1

Try:

var params = {
  "otherParam": "x",
  "q": [ text, title ]
};

edit — more information: array-valued parameters like that are treated specially by jQuery. To appease many common server frameworks, by default (since release 1.5 or 1.6 I think) those will result in parameter names that include “[]” (open- and close-bracket characters) as a suffix (no number, contrary to my erroneous comment below). If you don’t want that, you can set

jQuery.ajaxSettings.traditional = true;

and it’ll just be “q” instead of “q[]”.