Question

I have an array that is being encoded in php using json_encode

 $params = array(1=>'something','2'=>'two');

When I encode it using json encode it will encode it with double quotes which in itself is fine but I’m trying to embed this in an anchor tag and the double quotes are messing up the attributes.
<a class="btn ajax" data-method="test" data-params="{"one":"something","2":"two"}" href="#">test ajax link</a>

obviously the second double quote in the data-params attribute is breaking the link.

So what I did was convert the string into single quotes but I need to re-convert it to double quotes to be able to parse in javascript;

 var string = {'one':'something','2':'two'} ;

JSON.parse will fail on that string, i tried

 var jsonString = dataParams.replace('\'', '"');

but that seems to only convert the first single quote then stops. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Use this instead:

var jsonString = dataParams.replace(/'/g, '"');