Jquery Ajax read post values with php - php

Question

I'm sending the following info to a php file. data contains 'one' and 'two'. 'One' contains the serialized form and two contains similar custom info. How can i read those post values with php. I want to be able to differentiated between the value contained in one and value contains into two.
$('form').submit(function() {
x = $(this).serialize(),
test = 'testing=whatever&something=else';
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
data: {'one':x, 'two':test}
...
})
})
How can i read the values in php in such a way where i can do
$one = $_POST['one'];
foreach($one as $key=>$value){ $message.= $key.": ".$value."\r\n"; }

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you want to do with the serialised version of the form (x) but you can get access to both of the variables in the receiving PHP script using $_POST as per usual and then probably use parse_str (http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-str.php) to break 'test' out into the various parameters, but I question why you are taking this route instead of breaking the parameters up and passing them as individual arguments in the data argument:
data: {'testing' : whatever, 'something' : else}

Answer 2

you need to cancel the default behavior of submit
$('form').submit(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
x = $(this).serialize();
test = 'testing=whatever&something=else';
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
data: {one:x, two:test}
...
})
})
on the php side
$one = $_POST['one'];
$two = $_POST['two'];
update:
im not that well versed in php but i think the following should work
$one = $_POST['one'];
$two = $_POST['two'];
$cols = explode("&", $one);
foreach($cols as $col) {
$key_values = explode("=", $col);
$key = urldecode($key_values[0]);
$values = urldecode(key_values[1]);
}
echo $key, $values;

Answer 3

If your form contains checkboxes or radioboxes (inputs with same names) use $(this).serializeArray() instead of $(this).serialize() to distinguish between them

Answer 4

You need to first convert your form data into JSON! not the query string which serialize does, for that see This, JSON can give you ability to have nested keys.
Then you can put seperate data in different keys in JSON like:
var myData =
{
'one': $('form').serializeObject(),
'two': 'testing=whatever&something=else',
};
$('form').submit(function() {
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
data: myData,
...
});
});
And the on PHP side you can easily get it using the way you want to:
$one = $_POST['one']
foreach($one as $key=>$value) { $message.= $key.": ".$value."\r\n"; }