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Lee Loftiss
Lee Loftiss

Reputation: 3195

How to pass JSON with single quote from PHP to Javascript through HTML?

I am attempting to pass some text from my PHP code to Javascript through HTML. It works fine unless the text has a single quote. Here is how I am doing it:

<script>

     var t = '<?php echo json_encode(an array containing text "he's here");?>';

</script>

I tried changing the single quotes around the php echo to double quotes. but, of course, JSON uses double quotes, so I had the same problem.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2176

Answers (2)

atomCode
atomCode

Reputation: 902

You need to use the json_encode constant JSON_HEX_APOS as the second parameter which will convert all single quotes ' to \u0027. :

var t = <?php echo json_encode($data,JSON_HEX_APOS);?>;

Then use encode () and decode () javascript functions to convert the text from each array entry back to readable text like this example http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/tryit.asp?filename=tryjsref_unescape

Upvotes: 3

Hitesh Siddhapura
Hitesh Siddhapura

Reputation: 1392

Remove single quote around the php

<script type="text/javascript">
    var t = <?php echo json_encode(array("text"=>"he's here"));?>;
</script>

it will create, t variable as 

Object {text: "he's here"}

Upvotes: 1

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