PHP JSON String, escape Double Quotes for JS output

Question

I\'m creating a JSON string from a PHP array. I\'ve encoded it using json_encode().

$data = array(
    \'title\' => \'Example string\\\'s wit         


        

Answer 1

I had challenge with users innocently entering € and some using double quotes to define their content. I tweaked a couple of answers from this page and others to finally define my small little work-around

$products = array($ofDirtyArray);
if($products !=null) {
    header("Content-type: application/json");
    header('Content-Type: charset=utf-8');
    array_walk_recursive($products, function(&$val) {
        $val = html_entity_decode(htmlentities($val, ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8"));
    });
    echo json_encode($products,  JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE | JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES | JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK);
}

I hope it helps someone/someone improves it.