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user1032531

Reputation: 26321

Storing JSON as a string in JSON using PHP

For testing purposes, I wish to use Ajax to request some JSON from the server. From the Ajax client's perspective, the JSON should look like:

json=[
    {"source":"pa","jsonstring": '{"a":1,"b":2,"c":3}'},
    {"source":"pa","jsonstring": '{"a":1,"b":2,"c":3}'},
    {"source":"pa","jsonstring": '{"a":1,"b":2,"c":3}'}
];

Note that jsonstring is not JSON, but a string, and $.getJSON() should not parse it into an object.

My attempt is below, however, I get error Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',' in /var/www/test/src/classes/Ajax.php on line 13.

How should this be performed?

$content=file_get_contents('../buffer.json',true); //Line 13
$buffer=$content?json_decode($content):[];

$json=json_encode(['a'=>1,'b'=>2,'c'=>3]);
$buffer[]=[
    'source'=>'pa',
    'jsonstring'=>'"'.$json.'"'
];

$buffer=json_encode($buffer);
file_put_contents('../buffer.json',$buffer);

header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo($buffer);

buffer.json output is shown below:

[{"source":"pa","jsonstring":"\"{\"a\":1,\"b\":2,\"c\":3}\""},{"source":"pa","jsonstring":"\"{\"a\":1,\"b\":2,\"c\":3}\""}]

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1450

Answers (1)

Dylan Hamilton
Dylan Hamilton

Reputation: 692

Have you tried removing the extra quotes from 'jsonstring'=>'"'.$json.'"'? If you json_encode it (which it looks like you do), then it is already a string. I think it should be 'jsonstring' => $json.

Upvotes: 5

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