PHP-SDK Special Charaters Causing Error on Update/Upsert

PHP-SDK Special Charaters Causing Error on Update/Upsert

Greetings,

I am running into an issue when updating or upserting records to Zoho with specials characters like / or bullets. I get the error below:

  1. Fatal error: Uncaught ZCRMException Caused by:'body' in C:\xampp\htdocs\zoho\vendor\zohocrm\php-sdk\src\com\zoho\crm\library\api\response\BulkAPIResponse.php(36) #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\zoho\vendor\zohocrm\php-sdk\src\com\zoho\crm\library\api\response\CommonAPIResponse.php(29): BulkAPIResponse->handleForFaultyResponses() #1 C:\xampp\htdocs\zoho\vendor\zohocrm\php-sdk\src\com\zoho\crm\library\api\response\CommonAPIResponse.php(22): CommonAPIResponse->processResponse() #2 C:\xampp\htdocs\zoho\vendor\zohocrm\php-sdk\src\com\zoho\crm\library\api\response\BulkAPIResponse.php(17): CommonAPIResponse->__construct('HTTP/1.1 400 Ba...', 400) #3 C:\xampp\htdocs\zoho\vendor\zohocrm\php-sdk\src\com\zoho\crm\library\api\APIRequest.php(111): BulkAPIResponse->__construct('HTTP/1.1 400 Ba...', 400) #4 C:\xampp\htdocs\zoho\vendor\zohocrm\php-sdk\src\com\zoho\crm\library\api\handler\MassEntityAPIHandler.php(104): APIRequest->getBulkAPIResponse() #5 C:\xampp\htdocs\zoho\vendor\zohocrm\php-sdk\src\com\zoho\crm\library\crud\ZCRMModule.php(565): Mas in C:\xampp\htdocs\zoho\vendor\zohocrm\php-sdk\src\com\zoho\crm\library\api\response\BulkAPIResponse.php on line 36
I am sure I need to clean or do something to the name. I have tried htmlspecialchars but it changes & to & in zoho which is not very pretty. 

Anyone else have any ideas of what I may try?

Thanks,

Josh