Introduction

This PHP library create a wrapper for json_encode and json_decode PHP functions that normalize use across de PHP versions and throw exceptions when encoding or decoding fail.

Requirements

This library require PHP 5.3.3 or higher

Installation

You can use Composer to use this library in your application.

If you don't have Composer yet, download it following the instructions on http://getcomposer.org/ or just run the following command:

curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php

And then execute this command to add libary to your project:

$ composer require sgmendez/json

Or require sgmendez/json into your composer.json file:

json
{
    "require": {
        "sgmendez/json": "1.0.*"
    }
}

Tests

You can run the PHPUnit tests, in directory test execute:

$ php phpunit.phar .

In this directory there are a copy of phpunit.phar for execution test

Examples

Encode JSON data:

php
use Sgmendez\Json\Json;

$json = new Json();

try
{
    $arrayData = array('foo' => 'Foo', 'bar' => 'Bar');
    $jsonData = $json->encode($arrayData);
} 
catch (Exception $ex) 
{
    echo '[EXCEPTION] MSG: '.$ex->getMessage().' | FILE: '.$ex->getFile().': '.$ex->getLine()."\n";
}

Decode JSON string (by default, return array data):

php
use Sgmendez\Json\Json;

$json = new Json();

try
{
    $jsonData = '{"foo":"Foo","bar":"Bar"}';
    $dataArray = $json->decode($jsonData);
} 
catch (Exception $ex) 
{
    echo '[EXCEPTION] MSG: '.$ex->getMessage() .
         ' | FILE: '.$ex->getFile().': '.$ex->getLine()."\n";
}

Decode JSON file (by default, return array data):

php
use Sgmendez\Json\Json;

$json = new Json();

try
{
    $dataArray = $json->decodeFile('/path/to/file.json');
} 
catch (Exception $ex) 
{
    echo '[EXCEPTION] MSG: '.$ex->getMessage() .
         ' | FILE: '.$ex->getFile().': '.$ex->getLine()."\n";
}

If you need to check if is valid json data, you can to use checkValidJsonData() method.

License

Licensed under the BSD License:

http://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php