How to pass arrays to sAjaxSource via aoData?

arvinsim

I have a sAjaxSource url that points to a PHP script that accepts a certain parameter as a $_POST array variable(Normally, this would represent checkboxes in a form).

My question is, how do I pass data in aoData in such a way that this will be accepted as an array in the PHP script? I tried this

[code]
aoData.push(
{
'name': 'ids',
'value': [1,2]
});
[/code]

and the PHP script interpreted this as a string( '1,2') as opposed to an array( [1,2] )

allan

Two options - first you can json_decode() the above array (possibly the easiest), or on the client-side you can do this (which is quite a handy feature of PHP at times):

[code]
aoData.push(
{
'name': 'ids[]',
'value': 1
},{
'name': 'ids[]',
'value': 2
});
[/code]

Allan

arvinsim

I see. The solution with the "[]" worked. Apparently you need to have that at the end of the "name" in order to simulate checkboxes and the like.