jQuery json_encode

Question

I've looked around for a Javascript/jQuery function which emulates PHP's json_encode, but all the ones I find (listed bellow) don't work.

To check if it wasn't my array wasn't faulty I used phpjs var_dump with expected results.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Well the jquery-json works. I have used it successfully before! Could you add the array or object you are trying to encode? — andyb
– andyb, Commented Jul 1, 2011 at 16:15

andyb · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-01 21:37:11Z

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The problem is that you cannot do this:

ret[$(this).attr("id")] = _recursiveItems(this);

because var ret = [] declares ret as an Array and not an Object and $(this).attr("id") is non-numeric (its value is head_1). It is attempting to create an associative array which is not supported.. JavaScript associative arrays are are meant to be numeric and even considered harmful.

If you change the declaration to var ret = {} then you can use jquery-json to convert the object to JSON. Here is a demo using the code in the question.

answered Jul 1, 2011 at 21:37

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