PHP Escaping JSON string for CSV export

Question

I have an array where one of the elements value is a long JSON string

foreach ( $results as $data ) {
    // Put the data into the stream
    fputcsv($fh, $data);
}

I need a way to escape the JSON string because currently in my CSV export the backslashes in the JSON string are starting new columns

Thanks

Alex

Answer 1

Yes you can do so by using

foreach ( $results as $data ) {
    if(is_array(json_decode($data,true))) continue ;
    fputcsv($fh, $data);
}

UPDATE from the last comment ::

Looks like your $data has an array instead of JSON so in this case you can just do

foreach ( $results as $data ) {
        if(is_array($data)) continue ;
        fputcsv($fh, $data);
    }

AND combining both we can have following where it will escape both JSON and ARRAY

foreach ( $results as $data ) {
        if(is_array($data)) continue ;
        if(is_array(json_decode($data,true))) continue ;
        fputcsv($fh, $data);
    }