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I am trying to pass an array that looks something like this below using a $.ajax() request.

[
    [
        {
            name: "Bob",
            age: "22"
        },
        {
            name: "Sam",
            age: "28"
        },
        {
            name: "Tom",
            age: "26"
        },
    ],
    [
        batch: "101",
        status: "live"
    ]
]

As you can see there is two arrays with one that is an object.

My question is how do I pass this to codeigniter and read the information.

Currently I'm passing it to Codeigniter by doing something like this.

    var submit = $.ajax({
        url:$('#hiddenurl').val() + 'index.php?/home/checkout/',
        type: 'POST',
        data: {checkoutInformation: checkout_data_arr},
        success: function(response, status, xhr) {
          //do code here
        }
    });

and my Codeigniter controller function looks something like this.

function checkout(){
    //send back Item details in JSON.
    $checkoutInformation = $this -> input -> post('checkoutInformation');

    print_r($checkoutInformation);

}

Currently this is the response from that function

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [name] => Bob
                    [age] => 22
                )
            [1] => Array
                (
                    [name] => Sam
                    [age] => 28
                )

            [2] => Array
                (
                    [name] => Tom
                    [age] => 26
                )

        )

)

As you can see, nothing to do with the second array that's in there. How do I parse thru the data with php to work with the data?

Can anyone point out to me what I am doing wrong?

Thank you.

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I guess you need to parse the json by client side ? 

 var submit = $.ajax({
        url:$('#hiddenurl').val() + 'index.php?/home/checkout/',
        type: 'POST',
        data: {checkoutInformation: checkout_data_arr},
        success: function(response, status, xhr) {
            var obj = jQuery.parseJSON( response );
            //echo obj[0][0].name;
// or walking through loop
$.each(obj[0], function( index, value ) {
  alert( index + ": " + value );
});

        }
    });

Parsing on server side:

function checkout(){
    //send back Item details in JSON.
    $checkoutInformation = $this -> input -> post('checkoutInformation');

    foreach($checkoutInformation[0] as $k => $v) {
     echo $k . ":" . $v['name'] . '-' . $v['age'] . "<br>";
   }

}
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No I want to parse it on the PHP side to do server side work with the data. – BaconJuice Dec 10 '14 at 19:16
    
Take a look now – CarcaBot Dec 10 '14 at 19:18
    
json_decode() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given – BaconJuice Dec 10 '14 at 19:21
    
ok, i've corrected it, i thought $checkoutInformation is json but it was array. – CarcaBot Dec 10 '14 at 19:22
    
The response looks something like this now. 0:Array – BaconJuice Dec 10 '14 at 19:24

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