jquery array to php JSON

Question

I have various textnodes (p) and headers that I extract using jquery and store into an array :

var textnode = $(source).children("p:not(:has(img))").map(function () {
 return $(this).outerHTML();
}).get();
var headerone = $(source).children('h1').map(function () {
 return $(this).outerHTML();
}).get();

I need to take the textnode array and headerone array and pass it via ajax to a php script (which will consequently store it in mysql). Does serializeArray work in this case or could I use .stringify. Would I need to .decode this in php (version 5.3.4)?

• Naftali: is this javascript? and if it is, what library are you using?
• netcoder: @Praneet Sharma: Have you tried anything yet or are you just wondering?
• Naftali: i am not sure what you are doing. that does not look like proper jQuery at all...
• re1man: I posted the slice of code that shows how I add elements into the array. @netcoder, I've been looking at jquery-json but I was wondering if decoding in php would also be necessary and how I would use the .ajax method to pass it to php
• Dereleased: @Neal: yes it does, what are you talking about?

Answer 1

If you send it via jQuery Ajax, it will be automatically serialized and will be available to your PHP as a $_REQUEST array variable.

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/

• re1man: $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "store.php", data: textnode&headerone, success: function(){ alert( "saved data" ); } })
• re1man: would that be enough or would I have to encode in json first?
• Dereleased: well, you'll need for data to look more like: 'textnode=' + textnode + '&headerone=' + headerone or {textnode:textnode,headerone:headerone}, but you don't have to serialize it as JSON. If you send it like that, you'll access it using $_POST['textnode'] and $_POST['headerone']
• bpeterson76: @Dereleased, according to the documentation jQuery .ajax will serialize a key->value array automagically. So, you're correct that you can pass a string, but according to the documentation you can also send a properly formatted array and it will do the rest.
• Dereleased: Nothing you just said isn't true =) I was responding to the suggestion of data: textnode&headerone