JSON character encoding in php script - php

Question

I am retrieving json from a php file that connects to the database and then creates the json to be imported into my page via an ajax call.
Some of the database columns have file paths in them, ie images/myfolder/myfile
The json that I see when I open the page in a web browser formats the file path like this:
\/images\/myfolder\/myfile
Are the escaped characters going to break the json?
i.e, if i do var icon_image = myData.file
will icon_image hold: \/images\/myfolder\/myfile or /images/myfolder/myfile
I am hoping the second option from above, but if it doesn't how do I get it to display as /images/myfolder/myfile
I have put mb_internal_encoding( 'UTF-8' ); at the top of the php page
The script that generates the json is as follows:
mb_internal_encoding( 'UTF-8' );
mysql_select_db($database_growth_conn, $growth_conn);
$query_rs_icons = sprintf("SELECT * FROM icons_ico ORDER BY name_ico");
//echo($query_rs_icons);
$rs_icons = mysql_query($query_rs_icons, $growth_conn) or die(mysql_error());
$row_rs_icons = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs_icons);
$totalRows_rs_icons = mysql_num_rows($rs_icons)
$rows = array();
while($r = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs_icons)) {
$rows[] = $r;
}
$jsondata = json_encode($rows);
echo '{"icons":'.$jsondata.'}';

Answer 1

are the escaped characters going to break the json?
No. A backslash-escaped non-special punctuation is just the same as the punctuation itself. The JS string literals "a/b" and "a\/b" result in the same string value, a/b.
json_encode escapes the forward slash character for you so that if you try to include a string with the sequence </script> in it in a script element, it doesn't prematurely end the script block.