Why does JSON encoder adds escaping character when encoding URLs?

Question

I am using json_encode in PHP to encode an URL

$json_string = array (\'myUrl\'=> \'http://example.com\');
echo json_encode ($json_string);
         


        

Answer 1

I see another problem here. The string result {"myUrl":"http://example.com"} should not have the member name myUrl quoted. In JavaScript and JSON, I think all object literal member ids are unquoted strings. So, I would expect the result to be {myUrl:"http://example.com"}.

This seems too big a bug in PHP, so I must be wrong.

Edit, 2/11/11: Yes, I'm wrong. JSON syntax requires even the field names to be in double quotation marks.