JSON array pushing

Question

I have this example array for an entry to be inserted to a YUI datatable

var book = {
        \"id\" : \"po-0167\",
        \"date\" : new Date(1980, 2, 24),         


        

Answer 1

var book = {
        "id" : "po-0167",
        "date" : new Date(1980, 2, 24),
        "quantity" : 1,
        "amount" : 4,
        "title" : "A Book About Nothing"
    };  

it's not array.
Array is

var books =[{
   "id" : "po-0167",
   "date" : new Date(1980, 2, 24),
   "quantity" : 1,
   "amount" : 4,
   "title" : "A Book About Nothing"
}]  

and after manipulation in your example you will get next array

var book2 =[{
   "id" : "po-0167"
},{
   "date" : new Date(1980, 2, 24)
   },{
   "quantity" : 1
},{
   "amount" : 4
},{
   "title" : "A Book About Nothing"
}]  

it's not the same.
You must do next:

var book = new Array();

var booktemp = {
   "id" : "po-0167",
   "date" : new Date(1980, 2, 24),
   "quantity" : 1,
   "amount" : 4,
   "title" : "A Book About Nothing"
};  

book.push(booktemp);  

PS.
var arr = [] and var arr = new Array() are the same Not all browsers works well with var arr = []

Answer 2

I tried and found the solution to it, since the att and values will be object after i push it

var temp = new Object();
    temp["id"] = "po-0167";
    temp["date"] = new Date(1980, 2, 24);
    temp["quantity"] = 1;
    temp["amount"] = 4;
    temp["title"] = "A Book About Nothing";

bookorders.push(temp);

this will make it display in the datatable, the generic part will just be iterated through using the temp[att] = attributes[att];