WordPress AJAX Form With Array Elements

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To be 100% clear, I’m not asking how to use ajax with WordPress… I already know how to do that.

My issue is that I have form elements with array names that aren’t parsing the way I need them to into the $_POST variable. I’m getting the javascript FormData syntax rather than the PHP syntax.

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Example…

the HTML… 

<form id="registerForm">
    <input name="borrower[0][first_name]">
    <input name="borrower[0][last_name]">
    <input name="borrower[1][first_name]">
    <input name="borrower[1][last_name]">
    <button>Submit</button>
</form>

the JS… 

$('#registerForm').submit(function() {
    var data = $(this).serializeArray();
    // also tried data = new FormData(document.getElementById('registerForm'));
    $.ajax(
        url: ...,
        dataType: 'json',
        data: {
            action: 'some_wp_action',
            formData: data
        },
        success: function(response) {
            console.log(response);
        }
    );
})

the PHP… 

add_action( 'wp_ajax_some_wp_action', 'some_wp_action' );
add_action( 'wp_ajax_nopriv_some_wp_action', 'some_wp_action' );

function some_wp_action() {
    exit(json_encode($_POST['formData']));
}

the output… 

[
    {"name":"borrower[0][first_name]","value":"John"}
    {"name":"borrower[0][last_name]","value":"Doe"}
    {"name":"borrower[1][first_name]","value":"Jane"}
    {"name":"borrower[0][last_name]","value":"Doe"}
]

I need the output to be an associative array like it would be if you just posted the form data naturally… 

[
    {"borrower":[
        {"first_name":"John","last_name":"Doe"},
        {"first_name":"Jane","last_name":"Doe"}
    ]}
]
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1 comment

  1. OK so I think the answer is here: Convert form data to JavaScript object with jQuery

    You’ll want to use the serializeObject function. Here’s a simple fiddle.

    So your js would probably come out looking something like this:

    $('#registerForm').submit(function() {
    var data = $(this).serializeObject();
    $.ajax({
        url: "submit.php",
        data: {
            action: 'some_wp_action',
            user: data
        },
        success: function(response) {
            $("#msg").html(response);
        }
    });
    return false;
})

$.fn.serializeObject = function()
{
    var o = {};
    var a = this.serializeArray();
    $.each(a, function() {
        if (o[this.name] !== undefined) {
            if (!o[this.name].push) {
                o[this.name] = [o[this.name]];
            }
            o[this.name].push(this.value || '');
        } else {
            o[this.name] = this.value || '';
        }
    });
    return o;
};

    It’s also unclear from the example you posted why you need to explicitly state the user[0] location for only one user anyway, so I simplified it for this example as such:

    <form action="submit.php" id="registerForm" onsubmit="return false">
    <input name="username">
    <input name="email">
    <input type="password" name="pw">
    <input type="password" name="pw_confirm">
    <button>Submit</button>
</form>

    this produced the following output:

    {"action":"some_wp_action","user":{"username":"asdf","email":"fdsa","pw":"pasasdf","pw_confirm":"pasfdsa"}}

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