My php code outputs / as \ /

[jaybo]

I am sending an API call to GWN API network/create endpoint and my payload is an array as below;

$body_data = array(
                'networkName'           => 'BFCMA_55_ChaitAdam',
                'country'               => 'US',
                'timezone'              => 'America/New_York',
                'networkAdministrators' => array(
                    '13497',
                    '13788'
                ),
                'cloneNetworkId'        => 29652
            );

When I echo $body_data the output is;

{“networkName”:“BBC_55”,“country”:“US”,“timezone”:“America\/New_York”,“networkAdministrators”:[“12345”,“13456”],“cloneNetworkId”:02345}

I need the timezone to be “America/New_York” NOT “America\/New_York” as is outputted.

How do I do that?

Edited September 16, 2021 by jaybo

[requinix]

Is it actually causing you problems? I mean real problems? Because JSON allows for escaped slashes like that.

[jaybo]

Yes it was.

Found an answer that worked - I added JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES when encoding the data.

$body = json_encode($body_data, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES);

Also unquoted the networkAdministrators array values and the call was successful.