Json
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). It is the actual form that a JavaScript engine will map the object to in memory. PHP have native support for JSON.Decode
Return the json representation of a value
$json = '{"a":1,"b":2,"c":3,"d":4,"e":5}';
var_dump(json_decode($json)); // returns object
// { "a"=> 1, "b"=>2, ... }
var_dump(json_decode($json, true)); // returns array
// [ "a"=> 1, "b"=>2, ... ]
$json = '';
var_dump(json_decode($json));// NULL
Encode
Returns a JSON encoded string on success or FALSE on failure code
$arr = array('a' => 1, 'b' => 2, 'c' => 3);
echo json_encode($arr); // {"a":1,"b":2,"c":3}
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