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

Problem solved! Here is what i did.

Inside PHP file to create rows of dynamic checkboxes,

  while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
  {
   extract($row);
   echo "";
   echo "$book_id";
   echo "$book_name";
   echo "";
  } // while

I do not use JQuery $.post method anymore. I changed my code to the following

    var my_query_str = '';

$("input[@type='checkbox'][@name='books']").each(
  function()
  {
    if(this.checked)
    {
           my_query_str += "&bookArray[]=" + this.value;
    }
  });


$.ajax(
{
    type: "POST",
    url: "saveBookList.php",
    data: "dummy_data=a" + my_query_str,
    success:
        function(responseData)
        {
            $("#save-result").empty().append(responseData);
        },
    error:
        function()
        {
            $("#save-result").append("An error occured during processing");
        }
});

Now, inside saveBookList.php page, value of $_POST['bookArray'] is an Array. Yey! Yey!

I do hope and wish the $.post method of JQuery can support array data type as Prototype does. :)