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ajithlal's avatar

serialize array of data in jquery

Hi Friends,

I've an AJAX request having an array of data like

data:{min:min,max:max}

I want to serialize the data. The serialize() function in jquery needs an element (like a class name or id or tagname) to serialize the data like below.

<form>
<input type="text" name="min" class="min-field" />
</form>
var data=$('form').serialize();

the above code will work. But I don't have a form to do the same. I've an array of data and I want to serialize it. how can I do that in jQuery.

Thanks, Ajith

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NicoDevs's avatar

If you hav an array of data and want to serialize it, I would recommend you use JSON. On Javascript you can do:

JSON.stringify(data);

On PHP you can do:

json_encode($data);

You'll obtain an string representing the array that can be easily parsed anywhere else. Check out:

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