json encode escaping forward slashes

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I m pulling JSON from Instagram    instagrams   json decode  response - gt data   Then parsing variables into a PHP array to restructure the data  then re-encoding and caching the file   file put contents  cache json encode  results     When I open the cache file all my forward slashes     are being escaped   http     distilleryimage4 instagram com  410e7     I gather from my searches that json encode   automatically does this   is there a way to disable it

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On the flip side  I was having an issue with PHPUNIT asserting urls was contained in or equal to a url that was json encoded -   my expected    http   localhost api v1 admin logs testLog log  would be encoded to   http     localhost  api  v1  admin  logs  testLog log  If you need to do a comparison  transforming the url using   addcslashes  url         allowed for the proper output during my comparisons

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I had to encounter a situation as such  and simply  the   str replace           variable     did work for me

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is there a way to disable it    Yes  you only need to use the JSON UNESCAPED SLASHES flag       important read before  https   stackoverflow com a 10210367 367456  know what you re dealing with - know your enemy    json encode  str  JSON UNESCAPED SLASHES     If you don t have PHP 5 4 at hand  pick one of the many existing functions and modify them to your needs  e g  http   snippets dzone com posts show 7487  archived copy    Example Demo   lt  php       Escaping the reverse-solidus character       slash  is optional in JSON        This can be controlled with the JSON UNESCAPED SLASHES flag constant in PHP         link http   stackoverflow com a 10210433 367456           url    http   www example com     echo json encode  url     n    echo json encode  url  JSON UNESCAPED SLASHES     n     Example Output    http     www example com     http   www example com

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Yes  but don t - escaping forward slashes is a good thing  When using JSON inside  lt script gt  tags it s necessary as a  lt  script gt  anywhere - even inside a string - will end the script tag   Depending on where the JSON is used it s not necessary  but it can be safely ignored

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