When a merchant adds a new product, as long as they type normal text

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Asked: June 12, 20262026-06-12T05:34:51+00:00 2026-06-12T05:34:51+00:00

When a merchant adds a new product, as long as they type normal text

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When a merchant adds a new product, as long as they type normal text into the body_html field, it works great. However, when they try to add some HTML from either copy paste or adding image into the WYSIWYG editor (that has “”) we get the famous:

lexical error: invalid char in json text.

Now, they may be pasting from an unknown source, is there a way any has figured out how I could possible clean up the body_html before sending it on to ShopifyAPI?

By the way, I’m using PHP and the wcurl.php
https://github.com/sandeepshetty/wcurl

UPDATE:

lexical error: invalid char in json text.

              "{"product":{"title":"Sample Event
    (right here) ------^

CODE SAMPLE:

$shopify_data = array
(
   "product"=>array
   (
     "title"=>$rs->product_title,
     "body_html"=>$rs->product_details,
     "vendor"=>"My Companay",
     "product_type"=>"Laptop"
   )
);

foreach ($variant as $key => $value) {
  $shopify_data["product"]["variants"][$key] = array(
    "option1"=> $value->variant_name,
    "price"=> $value->price,
    "requires_shipping"=>'true',
    "inventory_management"=>"shopify",
    "inventory_quantity"=> $value->quantity
  );
}

// $shopify_data = json_encode($shopify_data);  // This does not work either.
$shopify_data = stripslashes(json_encode($shopify_data));