Adding Hyperlinks to Infowindow using GMaps - wordpress

Question

I'm using Wordpress, and am successful at displaying a map on my site with multiple markers using GMaps. Unfortunately, I was hoping to have the "location name" hyperlinked to the relevant post on my site. For some reason though, I can't add a hyperlink to the infowindow without crashing the whole map.
Below is the functioning code, as soon as I remove the strip_tags(); function the map no longer displays. I'm guessing it's related to having too many ", but I can't figure out how to get it working.
$str = '';
foreach($loop as $p){
//get the meta and taxonomy data
$name = strip_tags(get_the_term_list($p, "mountains"));
$wtr_long = get_post_meta($p,"wtr_longitude",true);
$wtr_lat = get_post_meta($p,"wtr_latitude",true);
//Add to Array
$map_string .= '{latitude: "' . $wtr_lat . '", longitude: "' . $wtr_long . '", html: "' . $name .'"},~!~';
//$map_string .= '{latitude: "' . $wtr_lat . '", longitude: "' . $wtr_long . '", html: "name"},~!~';
}
//Remove last three "~!~" characters from the string not to have one too many arrays when exploding
$clean_map_string = substr($map_string, 0, -3);
//Now I can use explode on ~!~ to get arrays with my string
$map_array = explode('~!~', $clean_map_string);
?>
<!--Map implementation-->
<div id="map" style="width:880px; height: 600px; background-color:grey;"></div>
<script type="text/JavaScript">
$("#map").gMap({
scrollwheel: false,
maptype: G_PHYSICAL_MAP,
markers: [
<?php
$i = 0;
$length = count($map_array)-1;
//Inserts all the markers
foreach($map_array as $value){
if( $i != $length ){
echo $value;
}
else {
echo str_replace("},", "}],", $value);
}
$i++;
}
?>
popup: false,
zoom: 2 });
</script>

Answer 1

InfoWindows usually have no problems with tags. You are trying to create a JSON-string there, use json_encode() instead of this mixture of string-functions to avoid invalid characters inside the string.
<?php
$markers=array();
foreach($loop as $p){
$markers[]=array(
'latitude' => get_post_meta($p,"wtr_latitude",true),
'longitude' => get_post_meta($p,"wtr_longitude",true),
'html' => get_the_term_list($p, "mountains")
);
}
?>
<!--Map implementation-->
<div id="map" style="width:880px; height: 600px; background-color:grey;"></div>
<script type="text/JavaScript">
$("#map").gMap({
scrollwheel: false,
maptype: G_PHYSICAL_MAP,
markers: <?php echo json_encode($markers);?>,
popup: false,
zoom: 2 });
</script>