When I $.post() the values of a form, if one of the values start with
any of "()[]{}", then the associated form element name has a semi-
colon appended to it when I finally extract the POST data in my PHP
script.
The Javascript:
var formValues = $("#formName").serialize();
alert( formValues );
$.post( "something.php", { "someStuff" : "foobar", "formValues" :
formValues }, function( data ) { ... } );
The text displayed in the alert dialog is "Number=(555)+555-1234";
this is the expected value.
In something.php:
$formValues = $_POST["formValues"];
echo $formValues;
The outputted text is "Number;=(555)+555-1234". Note the insertion of
a semi-colon to the end of the form element's name. This only happens
when one of the bracket characters is the first non-space character
(i.e. " (" will cause the same results as if the space was removed).
If the form value starts with anything else, then no semi-colon is
added.
My PHP script is being called through CodeIgniter, but I don't
immediately see anything in its code that would cause the addition of
the semi-colon. At first I thought it was a safeguard when handling
data that might have JSON delimiters contained within, but the value
comes through unchanged; it's only its name that is modified.
Is this a jQuery issue, or does my bug lie elsewhere? Thanks!
- Jeff
