К вопросу о jQuery старших версий в Drupal 6

/**
 * Converts a PHP variable into its Javascript equivalent.
 *
 * We use HTML-safe strings, i.e. with <, > and & escaped.
 */
function drupal_to_js($var) {
  switch (gettype($var)) {
    case 'boolean':
      return $var ? 'true' : 'false'; // Lowercase necessary!
    case 'integer':
    case 'double':
      return $var;
    case 'resource':
    case 'string':
    /* Patch ++ */
 
// Always use Unicode escape sequences (\u0022) over JSON escape
// sequences (\") to prevent browsers interpreting these as
// special characters.
      $replace_pairs = array(
        // ", \ and U+0000 - U+001F must be escaped according to RFC 4627.
        '\\' => '\u005c',
        '"' => '\u0022',
        "\x00" => '\u0000',
        "\x01" => '\u0001',
        "\x02" => '\u0002',
        "\x03" => '\u0003',
        "\x04" => '\u0004',
        "\x05" => '\u0005',
        "\x06" => '\u0006',
        "\x07" => '\u0007',
        "\x08" => '\u0008',
        "\x09" => '\u0009',
        "\x0a" => '\u000a',
        "\x0b" => '\u000b',
        "\x0c" => '\u000c',
        "\x0d" => '\u000d',
        "\x0e" => '\u000e',
        "\x0f" => '\u000f',
        "\x10" => '\u0010',
        "\x11" => '\u0011',
        "\x12" => '\u0012',
        "\x13" => '\u0013',
        "\x14" => '\u0014',
        "\x15" => '\u0015',
        "\x16" => '\u0016',
        "\x17" => '\u0017',
        "\x18" => '\u0018',
        "\x19" => '\u0019',
        "\x1a" => '\u001a',
        "\x1b" => '\u001b',
        "\x1c" => '\u001c',
        "\x1d" => '\u001d',
        "\x1e" => '\u001e',
        "\x1f" => '\u001f',
        // Prevent browsers from interpreting these as as special.
        "'" => '\u0027',
        '<' => '\u003c',
        '>' => '\u003e',
        '&' => '\u0026',
        // Prevent browsers from interpreting the solidus as special and
        // non-compliant JSON parsers from interpreting // as a comment.
        '/' => '\u002f',
        // While these are allowed unescaped according to ECMA-262, section
        // 15.12.2, they cause problems in some JSON parser.
        "\xe2\x80\xa8" => '\u2028', // U+2028, Line Separator.
        "\xe2\x80\xa9" => '\u2029', // U+2029, Paragraph Separator.
      );
 
      return '"'. strtr($var, $replace_pairs) .'"';
 
    case 'array':
      // Arrays in JSON can't be associative. If the array is empty or if it
      // has sequential whole number keys starting with 0, it's not associative
      // so we can go ahead and convert it as an array.
      if (empty ($var) || array_keys($var) === range(0, sizeof($var) - 1)) {
        $output = array();
        foreach ($var as $v) {
          $output[] = drupal_to_js($v);
        }
        return '[ '. implode(', ', $output) .' ]';
      }
      // Otherwise, fall through to convert the array as an object.
    case 'object':
      $output = array();
      foreach ($var as $k => $v) {
        $output[] = drupal_to_js(strval($k)) .': '. drupal_to_js($v);
      }
      return '{ '. implode(', ', $output) .' }';
    default:
      return 'null';
  }
}
 
/**
 * Return data in JSON format.
 *
 * This function should be used for JavaScript callback functions returning
 * data in JSON format. It sets the header for JavaScript output.
 *
 * @param $var
 *   (optional) If set, the variable will be converted to JSON and output.
 */
function drupal_json($var = NULL) {
  // We are returning JavaScript, so tell the browser.
 
 
    drupal_set_header('Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8');
 
  if (isset($var)) {
    echo drupal_to_js($var);
  }
}