How to escape a JSON string to have it in a URL?

Question

Using Javascript, I want to generate a link to a page. The parameters to the page are in a Javascript array that I serialize in JSON.

So I would like to generate a U

Answer 1

Answer given by Delan is perfect. Just adding to it - incase someone wants to name the parameters or pass multiple JSON strings separately - the below code could help!

JQuery

var valuesToPass = new Array(encodeURIComponent(VALUE_1), encodeURIComponent(VALUE_2), encodeURIComponent(VALUE_3), encodeURIComponent(VALUE_4));

data = {elements:JSON.stringify(valuesToPass)}

PHP

json_decode(urldecode($_POST('elements')));

Hope this helps!