I have a MySQL query in order to get some records from a DB.
Then, inside a loop I have a PHP array and in the end I have json_encode() PHP function. The values I am getting from the DB, has some HTML tags, thus, the json_encode() does not work.
Please take a look at the sample code:
$pr_arr['products'][] = array(
"id" => $results_products->id,
"business_id" => $results_products->business_id,
"pid" => $results_products->pid,
"category" => $results_products->category,
"style_mapping" => $results_products->style_mapping,
"name" => $product_name,
"price" => $price,
"offer_price" => $offer_price,
"product_link" => $product_link,
"image_url" => $product_image,
"size" => $results_products->size,
"manufacturer" => $product_manufacturer,
"description" => $product_description,
"color" => $results_products->color,
"sku" => $results_products->sku,
"mpn" => $results_products->mpn,
"instock" => $results_products->instock,
"availability" => $results_products->availability,
"date_added" => $results_products->date_added
);
The $product_description is the one that has the issue. If I comment this line of code, the JSON in valid and correct!
The validation I am seeing from the https://jsonlint.com/ (and if I view it in browser is this):
"manufacturer":"combos","description":"
\\\
\tv-\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9\u03bc\u03cc\u03ba\u03bf\u03c8\u03b7<\/li>
\\\
\t\u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03bb\u03ad\u03c4\u03b1 \u03bc\u03b5 \u03ba\u03bf\u03c5\u03bc\u03c0\u03b9\u03ac<\/li>
\\\
\t\u03bc\u03b1\u03bd\u03c3\u03ad\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c3\u03c4\u03c1\u03af\u03c6\u03c9\u03bc\u03b1 \u03c3\u03b5 rib \u03c0\u03bb\u03ad\u03be\u03b7<\/li>
regular fit<\/li>
I read, that when you are opening the double quotes I need to have everything in the same row. But nothing, I have already tried worked. I tried to replace the new lines with empty spaces, escape special characters ( , , \t, and so on)
Could someone tell me how to solve this issue, so I could help the description (with HTML tags), inside my JSON?
thanks in advance!
