piedweb/rison

A PHP encoder and decoder for Rison, the compact JSON-like data format optimized for URIs.

0.1.882 2025-12-20 10:28 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.4

MIT

• Robin D. (ak Pied Web)

• json
• encode
• decode
• rison
• Pied Web

README

PHP Rison encoder - decoder

Rison is a compact data format optimized for URIs, a slight variation of JSON. This is a port from JS rison, forked from Marmelatze

Install

Via Packagist

$ composer require piedweb/rison

Usage

use \PiedWeb\Rison\...; 

About rison

JSON:

{"a":0,"b":"foo","c":"23skidoo"}

URI-encoded JSON:

%7B%22a%22:0,%22b%22%3A%22foo%22%2C%22c%22%3A%2223skidoo%22%7D

Rison:

(a:0,b:foo,c:'23skidoo')

URI-encoded Rison:

(a:0,b:foo,c:'23skidoo')

Learn more about Rison :

• Mirror of original rison specs and js/python port
• ESModule Rison port
• Rison playground

Contributing

Please see contributing

Credits

• Original version by Marmelatze
• Forked and updated to modern PHP by Robin Delattre (Pied Web)
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.