<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Introduction</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.json.html">JSON</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="json.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.json.html">JSON</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="intro.json" class="preface"> <h1 class="title">Introduction</h1> <p class="para"> This extension implements the <a href="http://www.json.org/" class="link external">» JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)</a> data-interchange format. The decoding is handled by a parser based on the JSON_checker by Douglas Crockford. </p> <blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <p class="para">PHP implements a superset of JSON - it will also encode and decode scalar types and <strong><code>NULL</code></strong>. The JSON standard only supports these values when they are nested inside an array or an object. </p></p></blockquote> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.json.html">JSON</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="json.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.json.html">JSON</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>