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<?php $json = '{"foo": "lorem `bar` ipsum"}'; echo 'Without str_replace()' . PHP_EOL; var_dump(json_decode($json, true)); echo PHP_EOL; echo 'With your current str_replace()' . PHP_EOL; var_dump(json_decode(str_replace('`', '"', $json), true)); echo PHP_EOL; echo 'With esceped str_replace()' . PHP_EOL; var_dump(json_decode(str_replace('`', '\"', $json), true));
Output for 5.6.35, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.1 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.34, 8.2.0 - 8.2.30, 8.3.0 - 8.3.30, 8.4.1 - 8.4.21, 8.5.0 - 8.5.6
Without str_replace() array(1) { ["foo"]=> string(17) "lorem `bar` ipsum" } With your current str_replace() NULL With esceped str_replace() array(1) { ["foo"]=> string(17) "lorem "bar" ipsum" }

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