Question

I am intercepting a form post using jQuery. With the form fields I am creating a JSON object which is stored in a hidden form field. The value that is passed in to the form field is similar to the following:

{"Status" : "Closed", "Location" : "Glasgow", "Date" : "2012-02-15"}

But if I echo the object from the $_POST variable:

echo $_POST['JSON'];

It output’s the following:

{\"Status\" : \"Closed\", \"Location\" : \"Glasgow\", \"Date\" : \"2012-02-15\"}

I have tried running this through stripslashes() and urldecode() but I have had no joy. I understand that I could just replace the back slashes with a replace function but thats a bit too much of a hack.

Has anyone came across this malfored JSON across post before?

Note: This is on the back end of a WordPress site. I am unsure if that would cause this effect.

Answer 1

Looks like you server has magic_qoutes_gpc ‘on’. (http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.what.php)