Strip quotes in PHP for JSON output

I have a string in PHP that contains both single and double quotes.

I am trying to use this string in some JSON output. To do this I need to escape double quotes, slashes, newline开发者_StackOverflows etc.

I thought that addslashes() would do the job but it also escapes single quotes which causes the JSON to fail.

How can I escape all relevant special characters except for single quotes?

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json_encode() will handle all that for you.