yiisoft / json
Yii JSON encoding and decoding
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Requires
- php: ^7.4|^8.0
Requires (Dev)
- infection/infection: ^0.16.3
- phan/phan: ^3.0
- phpunit/phpunit: ^9.3
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Last update: 2025-10-11 11:57:45 UTC
README
Yii JSON
The package provides methods to encode and decode JSON.
- It always throws
\JsonExceptioninstead of returning false on error. - It has sensible defaults, so you don't have to specify flags all the time.
- It has handy method to encode for HTML safely.
- It handles
\JsonSerializable,\DateTimeInterface, and\SimpleXMLElementwell.
Requirements
- PHP 7.4 or higher.
JSONPHP extension.SimpleXMLPHP extension.
Installation
The package could be installed with Composer:
composer require yiisoft/json
General usage
Encoding:
use \Yiisoft\Json\Json; $data = ['name' => 'Alex', 'team' => 'Yii']; $json = Json::encode($data);
Encoding for HTML:
use \Yiisoft\Json\Json; $data = ['name' => 'Alex', 'team' => 'Yii']; $json = Json::htmlEncode($data);
Decoding:
use \Yiisoft\Json\Json; $json = '{"name":"Alex","team":"Yii"}'; $data = Json::decode($json);
Documentation
If you need help or have a question, the Yii Forum is a good place for that. You may also check out other Yii Community Resources.
License
The Yii JSON is free software. It is released under the terms of the BSD License.
Please see LICENSE for more information.
Maintained by Yii Software.