Convert object's properties and values to array of key value pairs

Question

I\'m fairly new to JavaScript and am not sure this is possible to do but basically I would like to take an object and convert it into an array of strings in the format;

Answer 1

You're probably looking for something along the lines of

var obj = {value1: 'prop1', value2: 'prop2', value3: 'prop3'};
var arr = [];
for (var key in obj) {
    if (obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
        arr.push(key + '=' + obj[key]);
    }
};
var result = arr.join(',');
alert(result);

Notice that it will work fine if your values are strings; if they're complex objects then you'll need to add more code.

Or you can just use jQuery.param, which does what you want, even for complex types (although it uses the & character as the separator, instead of the comma.