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Json is a collection of static methods to simplify working with JSON in PHP.

Features

• encode to JSON string with error handling
• decode from a string or file path containing valid JSON with error handling
• validate a JSON document against a JSON Schema
• pretty print a JSON string

Installation

• Via Composer, package hgg/json

NOTE:

The json-schema library version used here is currently a fork so you need to add the following to your composer.json file.

    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "http://github.com/hglattergotz/json-schema"
        }
    ],

Dependencies

• JsonPretty A Json pretty printer by Cam Spiers
• JsonSchema A Json Schema validation library by Justin Rainbow

Usage

Encode

<?php

$data = array(
    'field' => 'value'
);

$jsonString = Json::encode($data);

Decode from string

Decode the contents of $jsonString as an associative array.

<?php

$data = Json::decode($jsonString, true);

Decode from file

Decode the contents of the file at $path as an associative array.

<?php

$data = Json::decode($path, true);

Pretty print

Note that the source can either be a JSON string or an array. The call below uses the default indentation of 2 spaces. To use a different indentation pass it as the second parameter.

<?php

$prettyJson = Json::prettyPrint($data);

Error handling

Instead of having to call json_last_error() and evaluating the integer response code the decode and encode methods throw an exception that contain the message as well as the code.

<?php

$invalidJson = '{';

try {
    $data = Json::decode($invalidJson);
} catch (HGG\Json\Exception\RuntimeException $e) {
    printf("Error message: %s\n", $e->getMessage());
    printf("Error code: %d\n", $e->getCode());
}

The code above example will output:

Error message: JSON Error - Syntax error, malformed JSON
Error code: 4