Unable to encode array to JSON

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var_dump of my array:

   array(10) { ["idcomment"]=> string(2) "26" [0]=> string(2) "26" ["parentcomment_id"]=> string(2) "25" [1]=> string(2) "25" ["comment"]=> string(531) "damnJoin Dev Center and publish your app in the Windows Phone Store. GET SDK GET SDK Download the tools to build great Windows Phone apps. VIEW SAMPLES VIEW SAMPLES View code samples from Microsoft and the community to get started. Develop games for Windows PhoneThere has never been a better time to develop games for Windows Phone. We’ve made it simple for you to get started with support for native code and in-app purchase. One third of all Windows Phone downloads and 60 percent of revenue are from games – get started now." [2]=> string(531) "damnJoin Dev Center and publish your app in the Windows Phone Store. GET SDK GET SDK Download the tools to build great Windows Phone apps. VIEW SAMPLES VIEW SAMPLES View code samples from Microsoft and the community to get started. Develop games for Windows PhoneThere has never been a better time to develop games for Windows Phone. We’ve made it simple for you to get started with support for native code and in-app purchase. One third of all Windows Phone downloads and 60 percent of revenue are from games – get started now." ["dt"]=> string(19) "2013-04-29 21:36:29" [3]=> string(19) "2013-04-29 21:36:29" ["iduser"]=> string(1) "1" [4]=> string(1) "1" }

Here is resulting json_encode($comment) :

{"idcomment":"26","0":"26","parentcomment_id":"25","1":"25","comment":null,"2":null,"dt":"2013-04-29 21:36:29","3":"2013-04-29 21:36:29","iduser":"1","4":"1"}

I am missing comment field. It works for shorter strings... What I am doing wrong?

It's probably the single quote, try remove that and see if it works. If it does you need to escape it. — shapeshifter, Apr 30 '13 at 04:52

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 30 '13 at 04:53

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You have a single qoutes in your comments section first escape it using str_replace like this

$newstring =str_replace('\'', '\\\'', $myString);

then do json_encode

json_encode($newstring, true);

answered Apr 30 '13 at 04:53

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+1 json_encode() is very picky with single and double quotes. – Jared Apr 30 '13 at 04:54
Little bit off-topic. Is there a normalizer -- prepares a string for successful json encoding?? – Andrew Apr 30 '13 at 04:56
maybe htmlentities($string) would help? – Lixas Apr 30 '13 at 04:59

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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Most likely, your string is not correctly encoded using UTF-8, which json_encode expects. See UTF-8 all the way through for more information.

If you have existing data encoded using some other encoding (e.g. Windows-1252), use a function such as mb_convert_encoding to convert it to UTF-8 prior to JSON encoding.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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answered Apr 30 '13 at 05:01

PleaseStand

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Unable to encode array to JSON

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