array data including html tags to json string

Question

How can I get json string from this array:

$test['author'] = '<p>Written By: <a href="">Someone</a></p>';

echo json_encode($test); // removed erroneous question mark

[in real, this string came from sql select query.]

Any ideas?

What part of what you've done doesn't work? Yes, you can pass an array to json_encode and it'll work fine. — Matt
– Matt, Commented Feb 1, 2012 at 14:23
If you're viewing that directly in a browser, most likely the html's being rendered. View the page source and you'll see the raw json string. — Marc B
– Marc B, Commented Feb 1, 2012 at 14:24
Marc B you're right, I tried to view json output in a browser and then copy&paste it into a json formatter and got error msg:"JSON is not well formated", now I take raw json string from page source, it works fine :) — kankaungmalay
– kankaungmalay, Commented Feb 2, 2012 at 4:44

Matt · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-01 15:15:47Z

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Based on Marc B's comment what will probably fix this for you is:

echo htmlspecialchars(json_encode($test));

That way your <p> tags (and any others) will be changed to <p> and such won't be interpreted by your browser as HTML.

answered Feb 1, 2012 at 15:15

Matt

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