php string with brackets and semicolons in it. really.

[yahn]

I'm using ajax and I want to send a javascript function as text so I don't have to load every function I need in the aplication from the start.  But I don't know how to actually put brackets and semicolons in a string.  So if I wanted turn a simple [code=php:0]function foo() { alert('bar'); }[/code] into a string so I could send it as text how would I do that?  Thank you for your time.

[SharkBait]

If you need to escape the characters put a \ in front of them :)

so

[code]
<?php

echo "This is \"MyText\" and this is how I want it to look.";
?>
[/code]

Comes out like:

This is "My Text" and this is how I want it to look.

[yahn]

Ahh.  It's been too long since I've been working with mysql.  Thank you.