Question

Im using jquery ajax to send some data to a php file

$.ajax({
            type: 'GET',
            url: 'dosomething.php',
            data: {list:orderNew}
            });

Which is sending this to the php

$list = $_GET['list'];

print $list gives me this:

  list[4]=null&list[1]=null&list[2]=4&list[12]=null&list[11]=null&list[3]=null

I was hoping to get it as an array so i could do this on my php file

 foreach($list as $key => $value) {
            if($value == "null"){
                $value = 0;
            }
}

How can a send the list[] data as an actually array so php reads it as an array or turn the string into an array so i can do my foreach on my php page?

Answer 1

Try

parse_str($list, $arr);
print_r($arr);

Outputs

Array
(
    [list] => Array
        (
            [4] => null
            [1] => null
            [2] => 4
            [12] => null
            [11] => null
            [3] => null
        )

)