Question

When I put “:))” in my textarea and send via ajax, it inputs into the database a value like
“jQuery172039628539560362697_1345324072488”, how can I stop this? Should I parse my text in some way in javascript first to make it recognize it’s text, and not part of the javascript coding?

This is how i get my text

var message = $("textarea.message_thread").val();
var dataString = 'id=' + id + '&message=' + message;
// make ajax call

sending with

$.ajax( 
                        {  
                            type: "POST",  
                            url: "/inbox/instsend",  
                            data: dataString,
                            dataType: 'json',
                            success: function(results) {}

                        }

Answer 1

See the comments under the question; the problem is that what has been submitted in dataString is actually a url-encoded string, and not a JSON-izable or JSON literal variable.

Hence:

dataString = {id: id, message: message};

Will fix this problem, here. jQuery will take that object-initialized variable and encode it for you to JSON.