How to parse json with inline html? - php

Question

I'm passing data between two systems. In PHP, I have a function that formats text like this:
function cleanText($string) {
return '<p>'.trim(preg_replace('/\n+/', '</p><p>', $string)).'</p>';
}
This is how I ouput the php-array as json:
echo json_encode($data);
I then pass that data in Ajax, so I receive the text like this:
{"content":"<p>Hej! Detta ska nu vara ordnat! Ledsen f\u00f6r besv\u00e4r.<\/p>"}
In the other system I'm using Node.js and parse like this:
json = JSON.parse(json);
But this will escape the HTML, I don't want that, I want to output the string as HTML. How should I do this? Should I indicate the markup in a different way in PHP or can I somehow parse the Ajax keeping the HTML?

Answer 1

json_encode will transform an array into proper JSON. I would first turn it into array, then json_econde it. Your PHP should be something like this:
function cleanText($string) {
return '<p>' . trim(preg_replace('/\n+/', '</p><p>', $string)) . '</p>';
}
$str = cleanText("My string");
echo json_encode(array("content" => $str));
once you do that, JS will then be able to use JSON.parse(data), resulting in something like this:
Object {content: "<p>My string</p>"}