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How can i pass data (associative array) to php file.

 function ajax(url,data,callback)
        {
            var xmlhttp;
            if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
            {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
            xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
            }
            else
            {// code for IE6, IE5
            xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            }
            xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
            {
                xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
                    if ( xmlhttp.readyState === 4 ) {
                        callback( xmlhttp.responseText );
                    }
                }
            }
            xmlhttp.open("POST",url,true);
            xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
            xmlhttp.send(data);
        }
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Use JSON –  Marc B May 3 '12 at 18:38
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json_encode and json_decode are your friends –  Anigel May 3 '12 at 18:39
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And please use jQuery, this code looks like the stoneage... –  Rob Angelier May 3 '12 at 18:41
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Not enough jQuery –  Xeoncross May 3 '12 at 18:41
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The way i read this, you are in javascript, and you have a javascript object (javascript does not have associative arrays, just arrays and objects). So, whatever data you have, you need to turn it into a string and sent it via POST or GET to your php script. I would recommend including JSON3 as a polyfill to ensure you will have JSON.stringify on your page (for cross-browserness). Code will be something like this:

var data = {
    someData: 'data',
    moreData: [
        'blah',
        'bleh'
    ]
};

var stringData = JSON.stringify( data );

// using jquery ajax for brevity (http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/)
$.ajax({
  type: "POST",
  url: "your-php-script.php",
  data: { data: stringData }
});

Now your php script can snag that string and turn it back into json itself:

<?php
    $dataString = $_POST['data'];
    $data = json_decode($dataString);

Hopefully this is what you were looking for. Cheers!

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You can use PHP's JSON functions to achieve this. It will encode/decode arrays into a notation that javascript can handle.

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is that the only way?? –  leo0110 May 3 '12 at 18:41
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No, but it's the only sane way. –  Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams May 3 '12 at 18:41
 
you could use serialize() and unserialize(), but you'll probably run into errors somewhere. JSON was created to do what you want. –  romo May 3 '12 at 18:42
 
so its like this var json = { 'info' : data}; –  leo0110 May 3 '12 at 18:42
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