Starting from version 5.2, PHP natively provides json_encode() and json_decode() functions, the former is used for encoding, and the latter is used for decoding.
1. json_encode()
This function is mainly used to convert arrays and objects into json format. Let’s first look at an example of array conversion:
$arr = array ('a'=>1,'b'=>2,'c'=>3,'d'=>4,'e '=>5);
echo json_encode($arr);
The output result of the above code is:
{"a":1,"b":2,"c":3,"d":4,"e":5}
Look at another example of object conversion:
"id":21,
"approved":true,
"favorite_count":1,
"status":null
}
2. Indexed arrays and associative arrays
PHP supports two types of arrays, one is an indexed array that only saves "value" (value), and the other is an indexed array that saves " An associative array of name/value pairs.
Since javascript does not support associative arrays, json_encode() only converts the indexed array to array format, and converts the associative array to object format.
For example, now there is an indexed array:
$arr = Array('one', 'two', 'three');
echo json_encode($arr);
The output result is:
["one","two","three"]
If you change it to an associative array:
$arr = Array('1'=>'one', '2'=>'two', '3'=>'three');
echo json_encode($arr);
The result changes:
{"1":"one","2":"two","3":"three"}
Note that the data format has changed from "[]" (array) to "{}" (object).
If you need to force "index array" into "object", you can write like this
json_encode( (object)$arr );
Or:
json_encode ( $arr, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT );
3. Class conversion
The following is a PHP class:
const ERROR_CODE = '404';
public $public_ex = 'this is public';
private $private_ex = 'this is private!';
protected $protected_ex = 'this should be protected';
Public function getErrorCode() {
return self::ERROR_CODE;
}
}
As you can see, except for public variables (public), other things (constants, private variables, methods, etc.) are missing.
4. json_decode()
This function is used to convert json text into the corresponding PHP data structure. Here is an example:
The result is to generate a PHP object:
}
The result is an associative array:
The first error is that the json delimiter only allows the use of double quotes, not single quotes. The second mistake is that the "name" (the part to the left of the colon) of the json name-value pair must use double quotes in any case. The third error is that you cannot add a trailing comma after the last value.
In addition, json can only be used to represent objects and arrays. If json_decode() is used on a string or value, null will be returned.
var_dump(json_decode("Hello World")); //null