Question

I’m using $.post to send data to the server.
There are 4 values that I want to send, two from a form, and two that I’ve written inside the function:

    var desc = $('textarea[name="image_description"]').fieldSerialize();
    var album = $('select[name="album"]').fieldSerialize();

and the other two I was just putting into an Object

{a:"something", b:"something else"}

I know I could just get the values of the form elements and add them to the object that way, but
I was wondering if there was an easy way to combine these two types (ie query string and object) into the data argument?

Answer 1

.serialize() return string which means you can append your additional values from functions.

var data = $("#yourForm").serialize() + "&a=something&b=else";

I think it is easy and enough to solve your question but if you need more special way to do it, take a look at http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.param/.

so you can do things like

var myObject = {
 a: "something",
 b: "else"
};

var moreValues = $.param(myObject);

var data = $("#yourForm").serialize() + "&" + moreValues;