AJAX search adds weird placeholder to URL (%5B%5D).

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Last updated by Nicholas 6 years, 9 months ago.

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March 31, 2018 at 8:58 am #630250

Nicholas

Hello there how's it going?
I used the toolset views plugin for custom searches and set the views search, filtering and sorting option to update the search results without reloading the page. I am tracking the search query parameters and need a clean parameter like so &wpv-product_cat=comedy.
However everytime I update one of the filters and the results update, a weird placeholder is added to the query parameter before the = symbol like so &wpv-product_cat%5B%5D=comedy.
Why does this happen and how can I remove %5B%5D, because this way I cannot pass the value "comedy" to google analytics.

The search works just fine without %5B%5D
Cheers,
Nick

March 31, 2018 at 9:43 am #630262

Nicholas

Got it
%5B%5D stands for [] in case there's somebody out there with a similar problem