arrays in $.ajax jquery and then sends it to a php page - php

Question

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
// Set the data text
var dataText = "
{
name: 'John',
time: '2pm'
}";
alert(dataText);
// Create the AJAX request
$.ajax({
type: "POST", // Using the POST method
url: "/ajax/analytics/push", // The file to call
data: dataText, // Our data to pass
success: function() { // What to do on success
alert("Data Loaded: " + dataText);
}
});
});
</script>
hello im still learning ajax. how can we push a array of $_POST?
1.im trying to do something like
var dataText['name'] = 'Jhon';
var dataText['time] = '2pm';
then somehow turns it into
$_POST['name'] = 'Jhon';
$_POST['time'] = '2pm';
then send it to the url..
2.is there a way to debug this ? what im doing now is im writing
# somehow doesnt work becouse its not auto refresh when the ajax sends a post
var_dump($_POST);
# ok heres how i debug it right now.
ob_start();
// write content
$content = $_POST;
ob_end_clean();
file_put_contents('CACHE',$content);
in to a file, i hope there is a better solution for this..
Thankyou for looking in.
Adam Ramadhan

Answer 1

I'm not entirely sure what you're doing. You seem to be building JSON manually (and not doing it correctly) and then passing that (in the JSON-serialised string form) to your file. You then seem to expect it to be parsed by PHP automatically.
It would be better to send it as key-value pairs. You can let jQuery do this for you if you pass in an object. This won't look much different to your existing code:
var dataText =
{
name: 'John',
time: '2pm'
};
Note that I have removed the double quotes. This is primarily because it is illegal to have a JS string covering more than one line without escaping the line breaks. It is also because you want the object to pass into your $.ajax call.
These should be available as $_POST['name'] and $_POST['time'] now.

Answer 2

file_put_contents('CACHE',serialize($content));
or
foreach($_POST as $k => $v) $content .= $k .'='.$v;

Answer 3

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
// Set the data text
var dataText =
{
name: 'John',
time: '2pm'
};
alert(dataText);
// Create the AJAX request
$.ajax({
type: "POST", // Using the POST method
url: "/ajax/analytics/push", // The file to call
data: dataText, // Our data to pass
success: function() { // What to do on success
alert("Data Loaded: " + dataText);
}
});
});
# ok heres how i debug it right now.
ob_start();
# somehow doesnt work becouse its not auto refresh when the ajax sends a post
var_dump($_POST);
$content = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
file_put_contents('CACHE',$content);