note 75348 added to function.json-decode

whatifif at yahoo dot com said something about a bug: "When I try to decode JSON string {"a":"<p>test</p>"} into array on server-side, it fails." That is not a valid JSON string, AFAICT. The JSON docs seem to say that '"','/' and '\' must be quoted with a '\' $ php -r 'echo json_encode("<p>test</p>");' "<p>test<\/p>" So it was your '/' character screwing it over. You probably shouldn't blindly run stripslashes on your $input either! The only time you would is if magic_quotes_gpc is turned on and your string is coming from one of the GPC. I inherited some PHP code which used Services_JSON. It stopped working when we upgraded PHP and started using this function. The problem was they ran html_entity_decode() over the input and &nbsp; was being turned into a character incompatible with UTF-8. ---- Server IP: 203.16.234.91 Probable Submitter: 210.15.202.115 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/75348 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75348/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75348/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75348/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75348/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75348/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75348/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75348 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/75348 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php