Jquery sortable serialize

JavaScript
1

Hey guys,
check out this code below:

	 
$('#reorder').click(function( event){
var order = $('#gallery').sortable('serialize',{key:'string'});
console.log(order);
				 });

This gives me a string :
string=1&string=2&string=3&string=4

I only want the numbers and I want them as an array to send via AJAX to my server side script to re-order the database. Please advise.

thanks

Silversurfer

2

The serialize method in the sortable documentation says that it automatically uses array notation when you don’t provide a key.

[indent]It works by default by looking at the id of each item
in the format ‘setname_number’, and it spits out a hash like
“setname=number&setname=number”.
[/indent]

3

[SOLVED]
Ah excellent, thanks Paul,

I also didn’t realize that:

index=2&index=1&index=3&index=4

is the same as: index[0]=2, index[1]=1, index[2]=3, index[3]=4

I am used to sending scalar GET and POST variables but this is the first time I have had to send a vector.