How to send serialize form data using JQuery if the input element is an array

Question

I have this piece of code in my PHP code:

while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
{
    extract($row);
    echo \"\";
    echo \"

        

Answer 1

I have come up with a method that will, when the data is sent using post

on the other side lets you access your elements using $_['post']['name']

If it is an array (eg a multiple select) then on your server you can access it as an array again $_POST['myselect'][0]...

Code: Function to serialize form data for post

function serializePost(form) {
    var data = {};
    form = $(form).serializeArray();
    for (var i = form.length; i--;) {
        var name = form[i].name;
        var value = form[i].value;
        var index = name.indexOf('[]');
        if (index > -1) {
            name = name.substring(0, index);
            if (!(name in data)) {
                data[name] = [];
            }
            data[name].push(value);
        }
        else
            data[name] = value;
    }
    return data;
}