I have a javascript string which looks like this:
['Chris','Johannes','test','[email protected]','[email protected]','[email protected]','[email protected]']
I want to pass this to a php document as an array/object. What is the easiest (jQuery?) way to do this?
Edit: I grab this string from the DOM:
<div class="container" data-users="['Chris','Johannes','test','[email protected]','[email protected]','[email protected]','[email protected]']" data-userids="[1,2,3,12,13,15,16]">
First, convert the data-users and data-userids into JSON (see http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php). That means the all quotes must be double quotes ("").
<div class="container" data-users='["Chris","Johannes","test","[email protected]","[email protected]","[email protected]","[email protected]"]' data-userids='[1,2,3,12,13,15,16]'>
Then you can get the data like this:
var dataUsers = JSON.parse($('div.container').attr('data-users'))
// dataUsers[0], dataUsers[1], dataUsers.length ....
var dataUserIds = JSON.parse($('div.container').attr('data-userids'))
Use the jQuery data() function, which will automatically cast values to the correct javascript datatype, including arrays and objects:
var container = $('.container');
var users = container.data('users');
var userIds = container.data('userids');
JSON.parse