yii ajaxLink is not passing variable to controller - php

Question

I am trying to pass a variable from an ajaxLink into my controller but my controller is not getting the variable.
//view
$ids = Yii::app()->storedData->getIds();
foreach($ids as $id) {
echo 'ID '.$id .'<br />';
echo CHtml::ajaxLink(
'remove',
array('/storedInfo/remove'),
array(
'data' => array('removeItem' => $id),
));
}
//controller
public function actionRemove() {
var_dump($_GET['removeItem']); // RETURNS string(0) ""
die();
}

Answer 1

The ajax array you're passing to CHtml::ajaxLink ends up taking the whole array and passing it to CJavaScript::encode().
As you mentioned in your comments, the $id you were using to build your data array was a PHP object. When this got to CJavaScript::encode, things got wonky, and the results weren't what you were expecting. Extracting a string or numeric value from $id, rather that passing the whole object should take care of this, e.g.:
'data' => array('removeItem' => $id->value) // obviously you'll need to use the proper key to get the value
Or maybe something like this depending on the data structure:
'data' => array('removeItem' => settype($id, 'string'),

Answer 2

I edited out my answer because i admit it was not what the original asker wanted but for the sake of the comments, i leave my code here
$ids = Yii::app()->storedData->getIds();
foreach($ids as $id) {
echo 'ID '.$id .'<br />';
echo CHtml::ajaxLink(
'remove',
array('/storedInfo/remove', array('removeItem' => $id)),
);
}

Answer 3

Looks like CHtml::ajaxLink takes more parameters than you're sending.
public static string ajaxLink(string $text, mixed $url, array $ajaxOptions=array ( ), array $htmlOptions=array ( ))
Do you need to send along some $text before the $url?