Req #49366 [Com]: Make slash escaping optional in json_encode()

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49366&edit=1 ID: 49366 Comment by: dtremblay dot fafard at gmail dot com Reported by: don at smugmug dot com Summary: Make slash escaping optional in json_encode() Status: Closed Type: Feature/Change Request Package: JSON related Operating System: CentOS 5.3 PHP Version: 5.3.0 Assigned To: aharvey Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Actually, I can't find any reason why is escaping slashes by default and create an option to remove this feature. Usually, when you want something added (e.g. Escaping Slashes), you use an option to recreate the feature wanted. So why is the option used to REMOVE a feature? Options exists to add features, not remove them?? Where am I wrong? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-09-16 15:53:38] aharvey@php.net This bug has been fixed in SVN. Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. I've implemented this on trunk via a json_encode() option called JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES. The default behaviour remains to escape slashes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-09-16 15:53:29] aharvey@php.net Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of aharvey Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=303421 Log: Implemented FR #49366 (Make slash escaping optional in json_encode()). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-08-08 14:43:22] jd2 at dilltree dot com Totally agree. This is needed for anything such as a REST service that wants to return JSON with valid urls. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-10-21 21:14:40] jemptymethod at acm dot org I concur with the suggested course of action making the escaping of slashes controllable with a flag as I'm experiencing the same issue as the OP albeit on Debian (rather than CentOS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-08-26 08:50:11] jani@php.net It's not incorrect to escape slashes. It's also suggested on the RFC to do so. Just look at the chart on http://www.json.org/ for string.. But since it isn't wrong either NOT to escape them, I'll just reclassify this. We can add another option to that optional bitmask "options". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49366 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49366&edit=1