Application of JSON in PHP

In today’s Internet, AJAX is no longer an unfamiliar word. Speaking of AJAX, XML that emerged due to RSS may immediately come to mind. XML parsing is probably no longer a problem, especially with PHP5 and the emergence of a large number of XML parsers, such as the most lightweight SimpleXML. However, for AJAX, XML parsing is more inclined to the support of front-end Javascript. I think everyone who has parsed XML will be confused by trees and nodes. It is undeniable that XML is a very good data storage method, but its flexibility makes it difficult to parse. Of course, the difficulty referred to here is relative to the protagonist of this article - JSON.
What is JSON? I won't repeat the concept. In layman's terms, it is a data storage format, just like a PHP serialized string. It is a data description. For example, if we serialize an array and store it, it can be easily deserialized and applied. The same is true for JSON, except that it builds an interactive bridge between client-side Javascript and server-side PHP. We use PHP to generate the JSON string, and then pass this string to the front-end Javascript. Javascirpt can easily convert it into JSON and then apply it. To put it in layman's terms, it really looks like an array.
Back to business, how to use JSON. PHP5.2 has built-in support for JSON. Of course, if it is lower than this version, there are many PHP version implementations on the market, just use whichever one you want. Now we mainly talk about the JSON built-in support of PHP. Very simple, two functions: json_encode and json_decode (very similar to serialization). One for encoding and one for decoding. Let’s take a look at the use of encoding first:


<?php
$arr = array(
'name' => 'Chen Yixin',
'nick' => 'Deep Space',
'contact' =&gt ; array(
'email' => 'shenkong at qq dot com',
'website' => 'http://www.chenyixin.com',
)
);
$json_string = json_encode($arr );
echo $json_string;
?>
It is very simple to JSON an array. It should be pointed out that in non-UTF-8 encoding, Chinese characters cannot be encoded, and the result will be null. Therefore, if you use gb2312 to write PHP code, you need to use iconv or mb to convert the content containing Chinese to UTF-8 and then json_encode, the above output results are as follows:

{"name":"u9648u6bc5u946b","nick":"u6df1u7a7a","contact":{"email":"shenkong at qq dot com","website ":"http://www.chenyixin.com"}}
I told you it is very similar to serialization, but you still don’t believe it. After encoding, it is necessary to decode. PHP provides the corresponding function json_decode. After json_decode is executed, an object will be obtained. The operation is as follows:

<?php
$arr = array(
'name' => 'Chen Yixin' ,
'nick' => 'deep space',
'contact' => array(
'email' => 'shenkong at qq dot com',
'website' => 'http://www .chenyixin.com',
)
);
$json_string = json_encode($arr);
$obj = json_decode($json_string);
print_r($obj);
?>
Can you access the attributes in the object? ? $obj->name, like this, of course, you can also convert it to an array for easy calling:

$json_string = json_encode($arr);
$obj = json_decode($json_string);
$arr = (array) $obj;
print_r($arr);
PHP is not particularly useful for moving around. In addition to cache generation, it feels like directly storing the array. However, when you interact with the front desk, its role is Come on out, let’s see how I use Javascript to use this character:

<script type="text/javascript">
var arr = {"name":"u9648u6bc5u946b","nick":"u6df1u7a7a ","contact":{"email":"shenkong at qq dot com","website":"http://www.chenyixin.com"}};
alert(arr.name)
</script>
In the above, directly assign this string to a variable, and it becomes a Javascript array (the professional terminology should not be called an array, but due to PHP's habits, I will always call it an array for easier understanding). In this way, you can easily traverse arr or do whatever you want. I haven’t mentioned AJAX yet, right? Yes, think about it, if the responseText returned by the server uses a JSON string instead of XML, wouldn't it be very convenient for the front-end Javascript to process it? This is how dog skin plaster is used.
In fact, as I write this, except for the different data storage formats, there is not much difference between JSON and XML, but I will mention one thing below. Although it has little to do with XML, it can illustrate the wider application of JSON, that is, cross-domain data calls. Due to security issues, AJAX does not support cross-domain calls. It is very troublesome to call data under different domain names. Although there are solutions (Stone mentioned proxies in his lecture, I don’t understand it but I know it) can be solved). I wrote two files, which are enough to demonstrate cross-domain calls.
Main file index.html
<script type="text/javascript">
function getProfile(str) {
var arr = str;
document.getElementById('nick').innerHTML = arr.nick;
}
</script>
<body><div id="nick"></div></body>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http:// www.openphp.cn/demo/profile.php"></script>
The adjusted file profile.php
<?php
$arr = array(
'name' => 'Chen Yixin',
'nick' => 'deep space',
'contact' => array(
'email' => 'shenkong at qq dot com',
'website' => 'http://www.chenyixin .com',
)
);
$json_string = json_encode($arr);
echo "getProfile($json_string)";
?>
Obviously, when index.html calls profile.php, the JSON string Generate it and pass it into getProfile as a parameter, and then insert the nickname into the div. In this way, a cross-domain data interaction is completed.