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The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

By : Ray Rischpater, Brian Ritchie
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The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

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By: Ray Rischpater, Brian Ritchie

Overview of this book

If you're writing applications that move structured data from one place to another, this book is for you. This is especially true if you've been using XML to do the job because it's entirely possible that you could do much of the same work with less code and less data overhead in JSON. While the book's chapters make some distinction between the client and server sides of an application, it doesn't matter if you're a frontend, backend, or full-stack developer. The principles behind using JSON apply to both the client and the server, and in fact, developers who understand both sides of the equation generally craft the best applications.
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Reading and writing JSON in PHP

PHP is a popular server-side scripting environment easily integrated with the Apache and Microsoft IIS web servers. It has native support for simple JSON encoding and decoding.

How to do it...

PHP provides two functions, json_encode and json_decode, to encode and decode JSON respectively.

You can pass primitive types or user-defined classes to json_encode and it returns a string containing the JSON representing the object. For example:

$result = array(
"call" =>"KF6GPE",
"type" =>"l",
"time" =>"1399371514",
"lasttime" =>"1418597513",
"lat" =>37.17667,
"lng" =>-122.14650,
"result" =>"ok");
$json = json_encode($result);

This creates a string $json containing the JSON representation of our associative array.

The json_encode function takes an optional second argument, which lets you specify arguments to the encoder. The arguments...

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