Question

HI im having a little difficulty with dataTables and php. I’m echoing out json in the format below:

{“iTotalRecords”:10,”iTotalDisplayRecords”:10,”aaData”:[[ “1”, “15”,”1″,”long description long description long description long description”,” 2012-02-25 00:00:00″],[ “1”, “15”,”1″,”long description long description long description long description”,” 2012-02-25 00:18:59″] … ] }

Which inst working with my dataTable, However after validating the above in jsonlint.com/, i get the well formated version below:

   {
            "iTotalRecords": 10,
            "iTotalDisplayRecords": 10,
            "aaData": [
                [
                    "1",
                    "15",
                    "1",
                    "long description long description long description long description",
                    "2012-02-25 00:18:59"
                ],
        ...

            ]
        }

When I put this in a txt file it loads just fine. I also noticed that adding a line break in the “long description” part, it also doesn’t work even with the one above. My guess is that the line break is messing with the format of the json, but how can I avoid this in my php script since everything is being word wrapped? I’ve tried \n in my echo code but it doesnt seem to create a newline.

Answer 1

There seemsed to be an issue with one of my database values, it was starting on a new line, which cause the format of the json to be incorrect.