PHP's json_encode does not escape all JSON control characters

Question

Is there any reasons why PHP\'s json_encode function does not escape all JSON control characters in a string?

For example let\'s take a string which spans two rows a

Answer 1

I still haven't figured out any solution without str_replace..

Try this code.

$json_encoded_string = json_encode(...);
$json_encoded_string = str_replace("\r", '\r', $json_encoded_string);
$json_encoded_string = str_replace("\n", '\n', $json_encoded_string);

Hope that helps...