drupal_json_encode

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mediamosa-21

drupal_json_encode($var)

Converts a PHP variable into its Javascript equivalent.

We use HTML-safe strings, i.e. with <, > and & escaped.

See also

drupal_json_decode()

Related topics

PHP wrapper functions

Functions that are wrappers or custom implementations of PHP functions.

Code

includes/common.inc, line 4154

<?php
function drupal_json_encode($var) {
  // json_encode() does not escape <, > and &, so we do it with str_replace().
  return str_replace(array('<', '>', '&'), array('\u003c', '\u003e', '\u0026'), json_encode($var));
}
?>