Shopify - API Error when adding a new product (Lexical JSON error)

Question

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));

Sandeep Shetty · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-24 19:58:46Z

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If I understand this right the solution is:

stripslashes(json_encode($params))

I do this in my Shopify client: https://github.com/sandeepshetty/shopify_api/blob/1f538276e690bd7b95f9cbb4007576ecb2d3f6de/client.php#L52

Note: PHP 5.4.0 has an option for this in json_encode.

answered Sep 24, 2012 at 19:58

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Brad Madigan Over a year ago

Hi Sandeep. I tried that as well. I put the code sample at the bottom of my question.

Brad Madigan Over a year ago

Hey Sandeep. I just realized, I'm using your Shopify client code which does it for you

Brad Madigan Over a year ago

So, if I just pass the Array() without the StripSlashes or Json_Encode, it works. Which is expected. BUT, if I put HTML into the Body of the Product body_html, it breaks.

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