Q:

Delete special characters of a Json string in PHP

How can I delete the Json special character of the first properities in PHP?
Here is my json string : 
"[{"name":"Maria","y":"14"},{"name":"Frederick","y":"1"}]"

well, I want it to became as the following : 
"[{name:"Maria",y:"14"},{name:"Frederick",y:"1"}]"

someone can help as soon as possible please?

A:

As I see the value of "y" is string.. you can convert it into an integer so the highchart works fine, you can use (integer) before the value

