I am using json_encode in PHP to encode an URL
$json_string = array ('myUrl'=> 'http://example.com');
echo json_encode ($json_string);
The above code generates the following JSON string:
{"myUrl":"http:\/\/example.com"}
Rather than
{"myUrl":"http://example.com"}
I am just newbie, which output is correct? Is JSON parser able to evaluate the second output correctly?
I think this solves your problem
json_encode ($json_string, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES );
You can see the documentation:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php
https://www.php.net/manual/en/json.constants.php
I see another problem here. The string result {"myUrl":"http://example.com"} should not have the member name myUrl quoted. In JavaScript and JSON, I think all object literal member ids are unquoted strings. So, I would expect the result to be {myUrl:"http://example.com"}.
This seems too big a bug in PHP, so I must be wrong.
Edit, 2/11/11: Yes, I'm wrong. JSON syntax requires even the field names to be in double quotation marks.