Parsing Javascript (not JSON) in PHP

Question

I have a php string containing the serialization of a javascript object :

$string = \'{fu:\"bar\",baz:[\"bat\"]}\';

The actual string is fa

Answer 1

Pear Services_JSON will parse that string (tested version 1.31). But given that that is a JSON parser and that this isn't valid JSON you have no guarantee that future versions will still work.