json_encode/json_decode - returns stdClass instead of Array in PHP

Question

Observe this little script:

$array = array(\'stuff\' => \'things\');
print_r($array);
//prints - Array ( [stuff] => things )
$arrayEncoded = json_encod         


        

Answer 1

There is also a good PHP 4 json encode / decode library (that is even PHP 5 reverse compatible) written about in this blog post: Using json_encode() and json_decode() in PHP4 (Jun 2009).

The concrete code is by Michal Migurski and by Matt Knapp:

• JSON-PHP / january 2005
• Code: http://mike.teczno.com/JSON/JSON.phps
• Pear Proposal: http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=198
• Pear Package: http://pear.php.net/package/Services_JSON