From: Operating system: RedHat PHP version: 5.3.2 Package: JSON related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:json_encode encoding HTML tags within strings incorrectly
Description: ------------ When using json_encode for strings with HTML tag, end tag gets HTML encoded but the start tag is left alone Test script: --------------- echo json_encode(array('test' => '<b>Bold</b>')); Expected result: ---------------- {"test":"<b>Bold</b>"} This is valid JSON as per http://www.jslint.com/ Actual result: -------------- {"test":"<b>Bold<\/b>"} -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52161&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52161&r=mysqlcfg