parsing Javascript array or object with php

Question

I have a page that responds to javascript like this and I want to parse the 'series' array with php

$(function () {
 $('#container').highcharts({
 series: [{
 name: 'IP',
 data: [3.09,3.24,3.33,]
 }, {
 name: 'IPK',
 data: [3.09,3.16,3.22,]
 }]
 });
});

what is the most effective method for doing that ?

• Professor Abronsius: JSON.stringify( data ) -> ajax -> json_decode -> :-)

Answer 1

In php you have json_decode to parse JSON data

var_dump(json_decode($series, true));

E.g.

 var output = {series: [{
 name: 'IP',
 data: [3.09,3.24,3.33,]
 }, {
 name: 'IPK',
 data: [3.09,3.16,3.22,]
 }];
 // Send output of JSON.stringify(output) to php via POST, GET or XHR.

And in php:

$input = json_decode($_GET['input'], true);
// $input = array('output' => 
 array('series' =>
 array(
 'name' => 'IP',
 'data' => array(3.09, 3.24, 3.33)
 ),
 array(
 'name' => 'IPK',
 'data' => array(3.09, 3.16, 3.22)
 )
 )
 );

• Hmerman6006: I struggled hard and long for this answer and to understand this. Remember in JS use JSON.stringify(obj) on json object together with json_decode($_GET['input'], true) in php. They are not mutually exclusive but form a simbiose parsing relationship of two different languages and habitats.