jQuery: What to do with the list that sortable('serialize') returns?

Question

With jQuery I\'m retrieving positions of a sortable list using \'serialize\', like this:

var order = $(\'ul\').sortable(\'serialize\');

The vari

Answer 1

if data is

$data = 'album[]=stat&sort[]=157204&sort[]=157205&sort[]=157206&sort[]=157208&sort[]=157207&sort[]=157209&sort[]=157210&sort[]=157211&sort[]=157212&sort[]=157213';

and you want to get sort as array in php
use parse_str()
parse_str($data, $output);
print_r($output);

Output : Array ( [album] => Array ( [0] => stat )

[sort] => Array
    (
        [0] => 157204
        [1] => 157205
        [2] => 157206
        [3] => 157208
        [4] => 157207
        [5] => 157209
        [6] => 157210
        [7] => 157211
        [8] => 157212
        [9] => 157213
    )

)