Develop Reference

Getting array values in php from jQuery post

I am trying to send an array from jQuery post to PHP.
But I am not getting any values with the below code.
Could anyone help ?
jQuery
$("body").on("click", ".js-form",function(event){
var arr = [];
i = 0;
$('.addcolor').each(function() {
if( $(this).text()=="done"){
arr[i++]= $(this).data('request-id');
}
});
alert(arr);
$.post("../ajax/save_Request.php", {requestids:arr, action:'save_request' })
});
alert(arr)-> prints 11,24,35 (eg)
But I am not getting any values in the following PHP variable.
PHP
$ids = ( isset($_POST['requestids']) ) ? $_POST['requestids'] : 0;

Try with this 'choices[]'
$.post( "test.php", { 'choices[]': [ "Jon", "Susan" ] } );
See more in : jQuery.post and search the key "Pass arrays of data to the server". I think that you missed []. Try it and return me the result.

Try converting the array to a JSON string first, using
var json = JSON.stringify(arr);
Now that it's a JSON string, you can simply pass it through a hidden field. Then, once you get the string back from the PHP page, you can turn it back into an array using
$array = json_decode($arr, true);
where $arr is the JSON string.
I had a similar problem with trying to pass an array from JQuery to another PHP page and this worked for me.

JQuery unable to parse JSON string created by json_encode

I am currently in a bind, JQuery is unable to parse the following json strings
{ "query":"Unit",
"suggestions":
[ {"value":"Mr Ruto Kimutai ","data":88},{"value":"Mr Kimani Karanja","data":79} ] }
{"query":"Unit",
"suggestions":
[{"value":"Mr Ruto Kimutai ","data":88},{"value":"Mr Kimani Karanja","data":79}]}
The above strings when parse through JSON.parse create the following arror:
SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected non-whitespace character after
JSON data at line 1 column 112 of the JSON data
The PHP code which creates the string above is this:
public function getCustomerSuggestions($name){
$customers = $this->model->where('name','LIKE','%'.$name.'%')->show();
if(count($customers)>=1){
foreach($customers as $customer){
$list[] = ['value' => ucfirst($customer->name),'data' => $customer->id];
}
}
else{
$list[] = ['value' => 'No Customers Found', 'data'=> NULL];
}
$full_list['query'] = 'Unit';
$full_list['suggestions'] = $list;
return json_encode($full_list);
}
As you can see I am using the function json_encode to create the JSOn string so there should be no issue but it still doesnt work.
Edit
The json is sent using an autocomplete tool called DevBridge Autocomplete which takes the JSON strings and creates a suggestion list. The code I am using is
$('input[name=\"customer\"]').devbridgeAutocomplete({
serviceUrl: '".SITE_PATH."/ajax/admin/quotes/getcustomer',
minChars: 1,
onSearchStart: function (query){
var searchinput = $(this).val();
$('.autocomplete-suggestions').html('Searching: '+searchinput);
},
onSelect: function(suggestion){
var selection = $(this).val(suggestion.value);
$('input[name=\"customerid\"]').val(suggestion.data);
$.get('".SITE_PATH."/ajax/admin/quotes/getcustomerdetails',{id: suggestion.data},
function(response){
var obj = $.parseJSON(response);
$.each(obj, function(key, value){
$('#'+key).val(value);
});
});
}
});

It seems you have two JSON objects after each other. That's simply invalid. There can only be a single value at the root of a JSON "document". If you want to send down multiple objects, you need to put them in an array.
It seems getCustomerSuggestions is called multiple times and the return value of each call is returned to the client. Instead, the method should return an array, the caller should collect the return values in an array and JSON encode that array.

Well, your JSON string is NOT valid.
It should be,
[
{ "query":"Unit",
"suggestions":
[ {"value":"Mr Ruto Kimutai ","data":88},{"value":"Mr Kimani Karanja","data":79} ] }
,
{"query":"Unit",
"suggestions":
[{"value":"Mr Ruto Kimutai ","data":88},{"value":"Mr Kimani Karanja","data":79}]}
]
But as Felix Kling said, check your PHP code.

Properly returning a JSON object with an embedded JS function

Updated Post
I have a solution for that problem which works with me so far (only tested on Firefox).
My main goal was to dynamically update a Flot graph with Ajax. I also need to dynamically update the axis styles and you can do this by the tickFormatter option. To avoid the problems I previously had, I simply insert the desired return string in the PHP array and JSON encode that array. After returned to the Ajax function I create a new function using the javascript Function() constructor (Link). I hope this helps someone.
Ajax
$.ajax({
url: 'someControllerWhichCreatesJSONdata',
data: 'some Value',
type: 'post',
cache: false,
datatype: 'json'
})
.success(function(data) {
var datas = data[0]; // fetch data array
var options = data[1]; // fetch options array
var xReturn = options.xaxes[0].tickFormatter; // fetch return string
var yReturn = options.yaxes[0].tickFormatter;
var xFunc = new Function("val", "axis", xReturn); // create function
var yFunc = new Function("val", "axis", yReturn);
options.xaxes[0].tickFormatter = xFunc; // update tickFormatter with function
options.yaxes[0].tickFormatter = yFunc;
$.plot($("#yw0"), datas, options);
})
.error(function(data) {
$("#error").html(data.responseText); // show error in separate div
});
PHP array
$options = array(
'legend' => array(
'position' => 'nw',
'show' => true,
'margin' => 10,
'backgroundOpacity' => 0.5
),
'grid' => array(
'clickable' => true,
'hoverable' => true
),
'pan' => array('interactive' => true),
'zoom' => array('interactive' => true),
'axisLabels' => array('show' => true),
'xaxes' => array(
array(
'axisLabel' => 'someUnit',
'tickFormatter' => 'return "foo bar"' // enter whatever return value you need
)
),
'yaxes' => array(
array(
'axisLabel' => 'someUnit',
'tickFormatter' => 'return "foo bar"'
)
)
);
I skip the data array as it looks similar. Both arrays get combined and JSON encoded.
public function actionSomeControllerWhichCreatesJSONdata() {
$returnArray = array($data, $options);
echo json_encode($returnArray);
return true;
}
The resulting array looks like the one I've posted in the bottom of this post.
Original Post
I'm trying for hours now, but I can't get this to work.
I have an Ajax request which gets a JSON object as return value on success. This works fine as long as I don't use a JS function in my JSON array. So my JSON array looks as follows (after json_encode):
[{
"data": [{
{1,2},
{3,4},
}],
"function": "function(){return \"foo bar\";}"
}]
In order to get rid of the "'s in the function string. I use str_replace and replace the quoted string with an unquoted one. This then looks like so:
[{
"data": [{
{1,2},
{3,4},
}],
"function": function(){return "foo bar";}
}]
The plain json_encode works fine and my Ajax function reads it as a JSON object. After I replace the string it turns out that the return value is no longer a JSON object but a plain text string. I've tried to parse the string again with jquery.parseJSON() but this results in the syntax error:
SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected keyword at line 1 column 396 of the JSON data
Ajax function:
$.ajax({
url: 'someControllerWhichCreatesJSONdata',
data: 'some Value',
type: 'post',
cache: false,
datatype: 'json' // or text when trying to parse
})
.success(function(data) {
console.log(data);
var dat = jQuery.parseJSON(data); // trying to parse (only when dataType: "text")
var datas = dat[0]; // or data[0] when datType = json
var options = dat[1]; // ---
$.plot($("#yw0"), datas, options); // trying to update a FLOT window
})
.error(function(data) {
console.log("error");
$("#error").html(data.responseText); // show error in separate div
});
So when using this function and setting the return type to "json", it produces an error. If the return type is "text" and I try to parse the string I get the error above. Is there any solution for this problem or am I doing something completely wrong?
Thank's for your help!
UPDATE
Sorry of course my JSON data is not valid! As I said, my JSON object gets created by json_encode which I guess should get the syntax right. The plain array after son_encode looks like:
[[{
"data":[[0.0042612,0.0042612]],
"label":"WISE.W3: Cutri et. al 2012",
"lines":{"show":false},
"points":{"show":true,"radius":3}}],
{
"legend": {
"position":"nw",
"show":true,
"margin":10,
"backgroundOpacity":0.5},
"grid": {
"clickable":true,
"hoverable":true},
"pan":{"interactive":true},
"zoom":{"interactive":true},
"axisLabels":{"show":true},
"axisLabel": {
"unit":"Jy",
"id":null,
"name":null},
"tickFormatter":"$tickFormatter$",
"position":"right"
}]
and after str_replace I get
[[{
"data":[[0.0042612,0.0042612]],
"label":"WISE.W3: Cutri et. al 2012",
"lines":{"show":false},
"points":{"show":true,"radius":3}}],
{
"legend": {
"position":"nw",
"show":true,
"margin":10,
"backgroundOpacity":0.5},
"grid":{"clickable":true,"hoverable":true},
"pan":{"interactive":true},
"zoom":{"interactive":true},
"axisLabels":{"show":true},
"axisLabel":{"unit":"Jy","id":null,"name":null},
"tickFormatter":function(val, axis){return val.toExponential(2)},
"position":"right"
}]

Adeno pointed it out already, your JSON syntax is not valid.
Please try to validate your JSON with a linter, like http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/
This is a bit better:
[{"data":[["1","2"],["3","4"]],"function":"function(){return \"foo bar\";}"}]
And the other thing is: you should not manually deserialize the JSON. All newer versions of jQuery will automatically deserialize JSON based on the response's content-type header.
You already set dataType to json for the ajax request.
The response is JSON and will be de-serialized.
So you can directly use
.success: function(response) {
console.log(response.data);
console.log(response.function);
}
Answer for the questions/issue from the comments:
Now you created invalid JSON again, because "tickFormatter" : function(val, axis){return val.toExponential(2)}, misses the quotes around the function string.
Before you insert the string with str_replace(), you need to take care of escaping and quoting.
You may need a little helper function, which properly escapes a string - to be valid JSON.
you need to use str_replace() correctly: not replacing the outer quotes, just the inner $tickFormatter$.
Wait.. i will provide an example:
// we already have an array, which is JSON encoded
// now you want to insert additional JSON content.
// therefore we use a token replace approach.
// valid JSON - with $token$
$json = '[{"data":[["1","2"],["3","4"]],"tickFormatter":"$tickFormatter$"}]';
// the (future) javascript function is a string.
// it's not properly escaped or quoted to be JSON
// this allows for copy and pasting JS into PHP
$unescaped_functionString = 'function(){return "foo bar";}';
// in order escapre properly, we need a json escaping helper
/**
* #param $value
* #return mixed
*/
function escapeJsonString($value) { # list from www.json.org: (\b backspace, \f formfeed)
$escapers = array("\\", "/", "\"", "\n", "\r", "\t", "\x08", "\x0c");
$replacements = array("\\\\", "\\/", "\\\"", "\\n", "\\r", "\\t", "\\f", "\\b");
$result = str_replace($escapers, $replacements, $value);
return $result;
}
// then we escape the function string
$functionString = escapeJsonString($unescaped_functionString);
// now its ready to be inserted into the existing JSON,
// where token $tickFormatter$ is defined
// the token must be in single quotes. you replace just the $token$ and not "$token$".
$json = str_replace('$tickFormatter$', $functionString, $json);
echo $json;
// The result is valid JSON again:
// [{"data":[["1","2"],["3","4"]],"tickFormatter":"function(){return \"foo bar\";}"}]
Next step:
The ajax request is made, the json data is transferred to the client and you want to execute the function you passed in.
So the new question is "How to call/exec a JavaScript function from a string - without using eval?"
In general tunneling is a bad practice, see: Is it valid to define functions in JSON results?
Anyway, there a different ways to do this:
Referencing: http://everythingfrontend.com/posts/studying-javascript-eval.html
eval() - evil, but works.
setTimeout()
setTimeout(" function ", 0);
new Function()
var codeToExecute = "My.Namespace.functionName()";
var tmpFunc = new Function(codeToExecute);
tmpFunc();
document.write
document.write('<script> JS </script>')
data URI
var s = document.createElement('script');
s.src = 'data:text/javascript,' + encodeURIComponent('alert("lorem ipsum")')
document.body.appendChild(s);

JSON cannot contain functions like this.
You can however use Javascript to inject the function into the DOM, so what you want to do is skip the str_replace part and simply create a <script type="text/javascript"></script> element in the DOM and insert the data.function property into there.

convert php array of multidimensional arrays to javascript array

Hi i have that php code example :
$array1 = array("fruits" => "banana","vegetables" => "tomatos");
$array2 = array("name" => "Jack","Age" => "32");
$array3 = array($array1, $array2);
echo json_encode($array3);
javascript code includes jquery :
var json_data = $.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'scripts/myfile.php',
data: { action: 'myaction' },
dataType: 'json',
cache: false,
success: function(result) {
console.log(result);
}
});
how to convert json_data to an array and affect the two of $array1 & $array2 to javascript arrays !
this is the json_data content :
"{"HUM":[{"label":"2014-10-16 17:08:55","y":"58"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:55","y":"56"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:50","y":"56"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:45","y":"56"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:40","y":"56"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:35","y":"56"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:30","y":"56"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:25","y":"56"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:20","y":"56"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:15","y":"56"},
"TEMP":[{"label":"2014-10-16 17:08:55","y":"26"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:55","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:50","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:45","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:40","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:35","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:30","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:25","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:20","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:15","y":"24"},
"HUM2":[{"label":"2014-10-16 17:08:55","y":"38"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:55","y":"36"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:50","y":"36"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:45","y":"36"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:40","y":"36"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:35","y":"36"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:30","y":"36"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:25","y":"36"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:20","y":"36"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:15","y":"36"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:10","y":"36"},
"TEMP2":[{"label":"2014-10-16 17:08:55","y":"23"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:55","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:50","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:45","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:40","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:35","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:30","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:25","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:20","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:15","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:10","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:05","y":"24"},{"label":"2014-10-15 08:16:00","y":"24"}]}"
now i want to convert it to array and then serparate arrays HUM - TEMP - HUM2 - TEMP2

In your code,
$array3 = array(array1, array2);
here array1 and array2 considered as string without quotes, so you will not get your answer. This should be PHP variable. You have to include $ sign in this.
$array3 = array($array1, $array2);

$array3 = array(array1, array2); should be $array3 = array($array1, $array2);

From jQuery $.ajax() documentation on dataType when it is set to json.
"json": Evaluates the response as JSON and returns a JavaScript object. The JSON data is parsed in a strict manner; any malformed JSON is rejected and a parse error is thrown. As of jQuery 1.9, an empty response is also rejected; the server should return a response of null or {} instead. (See json.org for more information on proper JSON formatting.)
The object result is already a JSON object in the success function. So you can simply use result[0]['fruits'] or result[1]['name'] to access the relevant arrays.
Edit : Corrected index as #charlietfl pointed out.

json_encode with multidimensional array returning string "array" instead of data

I am passing a multidimensional array back to a .php file using json, jquery, and ajax. My goal is essentially to fill a drop down box (id=project) with multiple entries. Here's some code snippets:
$("#turninId").change(function() {
var user_id = $("#turninId").val();
$.ajax ( {
url:"send_input.php",
type: "POST",
dataType: "json",
data:{id_selection: user_id},
success:function(response) {
for (var i=0; i<response.proj.length; i++) {
$("#exp").html(response.proj[i]);
$("#project").html(response.proj[i]); } });
});
In send_input.php (backend), I query a db, and send the information to an array. Then I use json_encode.
$query="SELECT project FROM main";
$results = $db->query($query);
while ($row_id = $results->fetchArray()) {
$proj_option[] = "<option value=\"".$row_id['project']."\">".$row_id['project']."</option>\n";
$pselected=$row_id['project'];
}
$output = array( "proj" => "$proj_option");
echo json_encode($output);
My problem is that this is RETURNING THE STRING "Array".
For example, if I do: response.proj[0], I get "A" returned.
What gives? I've seen a few people with questions about this error, but no definite solution. Any help?

This is because you are casting $proj_option to a string by enclosing it in quotes. Just remove the quotes and you will get the array.