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https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/search?query=madonna#
The JSON result is breaking PHPs json_decode. To be exact, the following string is breaking decoding: “Sticky \x26amp; Sweet Tour”.
Browsers however seem to be able to understand it: http://jsfiddle.net/nggX2/ & http://jsfiddle.net/QUVFt/
http://jsonlint.com/ claims it’s invalid JSON.
On PHP’s side I’ve tried: http://codepad.viper-7.com/suUbQD and http://codepad.viper-7.com/QjqCH7
Any thoughts on what’s going on?
What’s going on is that this is invalid JSON. The response from that url is incorrect–JSON doesn’t allow the
\xXXtwo-digit hexadecimal binary escape sequences, only\uXXXXunicode code point escape sequences. Here it should just be&, though–no escape sequence needed.No idea why google/freebase is outputting invalid JSON.