gistfile1.php

<?php
/*** website stuff ***/
$error = array('id' => 1, 'text' => "let's pretend this array is an error that we want to disaply with <b roken HTML");

file_put_contents("/tmp/site.error", json_enode($error));
?>

<?php
/*** cli/console stuff ***/
$data = json_decode(file_get_contents("/tmp/site.error"));

// $data is now an array, and will display messages w/ broken HTML
print_r($data);
?>