Array - StripTags

Question

I have cities in my mysql table. I am getting those through an mysql query. Then I want to display in json format. However, json doesn't display due to not valid characters in the city names. Can anyone help on this? here is my code. I want to get json format somehow by using strip_tags or anything with this array. please help on this guys.

$zone = $mcon->query("SELECT name from tbl_cities ORDER BY name ASC");
$data = array();
while ($value = $zone->fetch_assoc()) {
    $data[] = $value;
}
echo json_encode(array("text" => $data));

Answer 1

SELECT Replace( name , '-', ' ' ) from tbl_cities ORDER BY name ASC

This will replace all occurances of hyphens with spaces. There are many functions built into SQL to format the data before you pass it json.

I hope this helps.