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jQuery unserialize Form plugin
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// Unserialize (to) form plugin - by Christopher Thielen | |
// adapted and desuckified (a little) by Paul Irish | |
// takes a GET-serialized string, e.g. first=5&second=3&a=b and sets input tags (e.g. input name="first") to their values (e.g. 5) | |
(function($) { | |
$.fn.unserializeForm = function(values) { | |
if (!values) { | |
return this; | |
} | |
values = values.split("&"); | |
var serialized_values = []; | |
$.each(values, function() { | |
var properties = this.split("="); | |
if ((typeof properties[0] != 'undefined') && (typeof properties[1] != 'undefined')) { | |
serialized_values[properties[0].replace(/\+/g, " ")] = properties[1].replace(/\+/g, " "); | |
} | |
}); | |
values = serialized_values; | |
$(this).find(":input").removeAttr('checked').each(function() { | |
var tag_name = $(this).attr("name"); | |
if (values[tag_name] !== undefined) { | |
if ($(this).attr("type") == "checkbox") { | |
$(this).attr("checked", "checked"); | |
} else { | |
$(this).val(values[tag_name]); | |
} | |
} | |
}) | |
} | |
})(jQuery); |
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There is a problem with special charachters that doesn't get really "unserialized", for example '@'
What is did is changed line 34 to this:
$(this).val( decodeURIComponent(values[tag_name]) );