Req #68178 [Opn]: JSON Native Support

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68178&edit=1

 ID:                 68178
 User updated by:    php at xkr dot es
 Reported by:        php at xkr dot es
 Summary:            JSON Native Support
 Status:             Open
 Type:               Feature/Change Request
 Package:            PHP Language Specification
 Operating System:   N/A
 PHP Version:        Irrelevant
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

Shortly, yes. This is not to be considered as an "echo" or "print" alias discussion.

In a broader term, JSON is the data structure most used by programmers in the web development, so I propose a convergence to this widely used data structure.

There are a lot of this to do in PHP, and I conseder this is not the first one, but it will be fine if PHP programmers consider this for the future.

Thanks for your comment.


Previous Comments:
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[2014-10-07 13:52:09] inefedor at gmail dot com

You propose to add another data-structure on the language level which will have the same semantics as arrays but another syntax or what?

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[2014-10-07 13:48:40] php at xkr dot es

Description:
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It will be fine if native support of JSON blocks will be added in the future to the language specification. The functions json_encode and json_decode provides the functionality, but it will be better if they were native supported.

For example, instead of doing:
$a=Array(Array("a"=>"b","c"=>CONST,"d"=>null),Array("e"=>1.23),Array("f"=>true));

You could do:
$a=[{"a":"b","c":CONST,"d":null},{"e":1.23},{"f":true}];

As you can see, JSON it's very compact and it's easy to read, also it distinguishes about arrays and hashes, so its better to understand.

I hope this comment will be considered for next versions.

Best regards.



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