note 113037 added to function.json-encode

From: Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:40:22 +0000
Subject: note 113037 added to function.json-encode
Groups: php.notes 
Request: Send a blank email to php-notes+get-196038@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message
json_encode "only works with UTF-8 encoded data." so if there is any chance that users influence the variable you're about to encode to json, you should first recursively encode to UTF-8. There are several comments doing that, but some only traverse the input array 1 level deep. Others write full fledged recursive functions themselves. Whereas as of PHP5 you could also utilize array_walk_recursive <?php array_walk_recursive($inputArray, function(&$val) { $val = utf8_encode($val); }); json_encode($inputArray); ?> Hope this helps ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.199 Probable Submitter: 178.85.254.87 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/113037 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/113037/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/113037/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/113037/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/113037/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/113037/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/113037/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/113037 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/113037 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php

« previous php.notes (#196038) next »