Re: [PHP] json stream filter

On 06/20/2013 04:26 AM, Markus Staab wrote:
> Hi!
>
> first post on the list, so please bare with me ;-)
>
> we are handling a lot of cache files in our apps and use json to persist
> those contents on the filesystem, because it seems to be the fastest
> possible way to read/write files with PHP.
>
> Since I discovered stream-filters, http://www.php.net/manual/en/filters.php,
> we use those also for base64 encoding files before sending them over the
> wire, which preserves a lot of memory and allows even bigger files.
>
> Would it make sense to also have a native stream filter for fileformats
> like JSON, to get maximum performance for reading/writing those (and also
> to be able to write big files)?
>
> Thanks,
> Markus

What would it do, exactly?  Stream filters still have to read/write a 
string, don't they?  Unless you're talking about reading directly into a 
nested array structure (what json_decode() does), I am not sure what the 
benefit is of what you're describing.  (And I'm not sure you could do 
that, although it would be neato if you could.)

--Larry Garfield