I'm pulling JSON from Instagram:
$instagrams = json_decode($response)->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?
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).
<?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($url, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES), "\n";
Example Output:
"http:\/\/www.example.com\/"
"http://www.example.com/"
Yes, but don't - escaping forward slashes is a good thing. When using JSON inside <script> tags it's necessary as a </script> anywhere - even inside a string - will end the script tag.
Depending on where the JSON is used it's not necessary, but it can be safely ignored.
I had to encounter a situation as such, and simply, the
str_replace("\/","/",$variable)
did work for me.
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.
Source: Stackoverflow.com