How to deal with backslashes in json strings php

Question

There appears to be an oddity with json_encode and/or json_decode when attempting decode a string that was produced by json_encode:

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Answer 1

You will need to encode your double backslashes \\ into quadruple backslashes \\\\ because php interprets a backslash as an escape character in single and double quoted strings. This means that \\ is seen as \.

This example illustrates what is happening

This is the output

$ php test.php
{"namespace":"myCompany\package\subpackage"}
Syntax error
class stdClass#1 (1) {
  public $namespace =>
  string(28) "myCompany\\package\\subpackage"
}
No error