Prototype

Make prototype.js’s toQueryString method php safe

Posted on July 9, 2009. Filed under: JavaScript, PHP, Prototype | Tags: JavaScript, PHP, Prototype, toQueryString |

One hurdle I came across today is Prototype’s Hash.toQueryString() method, which turns a hash into a query string [bet you couldn't have guessed that ;-)]. The wall I ran into was how it parses arrays within the hash, it would take something like this [in JSON]:

{"someArray": [1,2,3]}

… and run it through toQueryString(), it returns:

someArray=1&someArray=2&someArray=3

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