What is JSON in phpinfo

[stonerocket]

In phpinfo

theres an area with

json
json support enabled
json version 1.2.1

What is that and what does it do?

[iBrightDev]

here is what i found on it...


JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999. This feature can also be found in Python. JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, TCL, and many others. These properties make JSON an ideal data-interchange language.

[stonerocket]

Thanx for that, I suspected it had something to do with javascript. I just never noticed it before in the phpinfo. Im almost sure it was not there a couple of months ago.

But it does mention python which i did recently get installed on our server.

[BrandonTheG]

You can check out: http://us.php.net/json.