json_encode

(PHP 5 >= 5.2.0, PHP 7, PHP 8, PECL json >= 1.2.0)

json_encodeRetourne la représentation JSON d'une valeur

Description

json_encode(mixed $value, int $flags = 0, int $depth = 512): string|false

Retourne une chaîne de caractères contenant la représentation JSON de la valeur value. Si le paramètre est un tableau ou un objet, il sera sérialisé de manière récursive.

Si l'une des valeurs à sérialiser est un objet, alors par défaut seules les propriétés visibles publiquement seront incluses. Une classe peut également implémenter JsonSerializable pour contrôler la façon dont ses valeurs sont sérialisées en JSON.

L'encodage est affecté par les flags fournies. De plus, l'encodage des valeurs flottantes dépend de la valeur de serialize_precision.

Liste de paramètres

value

La valeur à encoder. Peut-être de n'importe quel type, excepté une ressource.

Toutes les chaînes doivent être encodées UTF-8.

Note:

PHP implémente un sur-ensemble de JSON tel que spécifié dans la » RFC 7159 originale.

flags

Masque de bit compris de JSON_FORCE_OBJECT, JSON_HEX_QUOT, JSON_HEX_TAG, JSON_HEX_AMP, JSON_HEX_APOS, JSON_INVALID_UTF8_IGNORE, JSON_INVALID_UTF8_SUBSTITUTE, JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK, JSON_PARTIAL_OUTPUT_ON_ERROR, JSON_PRESERVE_ZERO_FRACTION, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT, JSON_UNESCAPED_LINE_TERMINATORS, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR. Le comportement de ces constantes est décrit sur la page des constantes JSON.

depth

Définit la profondeur maximale. Doit être supérieur à zéro.

Valeurs de retour

Retourne un JSON encodé en tant que chaîne de caractères en cas de succès ou false si une erreur survient.

Historique

Version Description
7.3.0 Le flags JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR a été ajoutée.
7.2.0 Les flags JSON_INVALID_UTF8_IGNORE, et JSON_INVALID_UTF8_SUBSTITUTE ont été ajoutées.
7.1.0 Le flags JSON_UNESCAPED_LINE_TERMINATORS a été ajoutée.
7.1.0 serialize_precision est utilisé à la place de precision lors de l'encodage de valeurs float.

Exemples

Exemple #1 Exemple avec json_encode()

<?php
$arr
= array('a' => 1, 'b' => 2, 'c' => 3, 'd' => 4, 'e' => 5);

echo
json_encode($arr);
?>

L'exemple ci-dessus va afficher :

{"a":1,"b":2,"c":3,"d":4,"e":5}

Exemple #2 Exemple avec json_encode() montrant quelques drapeaux en action

<?php
$a
= array('<foo>',"'bar'",'"baz"','&blong&', "\xc3\xa9");

echo
"Normal : ", json_encode($a), "\n";
echo
"Tags : ", json_encode($a, JSON_HEX_TAG), "\n";
echo
"Apos : ", json_encode($a, JSON_HEX_APOS), "\n";
echo
"Quot : ", json_encode($a, JSON_HEX_QUOT), "\n";
echo
"Amp : ", json_encode($a, JSON_HEX_AMP), "\n";
echo
"Unicode : ", json_encode($a, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE), "\n";
echo
"Toutes : ", json_encode($a, JSON_HEX_TAG | JSON_HEX_APOS | JSON_HEX_QUOT | JSON_HEX_AMP | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE), "\n\n";

$b = array();

echo
"Tableau vide sous forme de tableau : ", json_encode($b), "\n";
echo
"Tableau vide sous forme d'objet : ", json_encode($b, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT), "\n\n";

$c = array(array(1,2,3));

echo
"Tableau non-associatif sous forme de tableau : ", json_encode($c), "\n";
echo
"Tableau non-associatif sous forme d'objet : ", json_encode($c, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT), "\n\n";


$d = array('foo' => 'bar', 'baz' => 'long');

echo
"Tableau associatif affiché comme objet: ", json_encode($d), "\n";
echo
"Tableau associatif affiché comme objet: ", json_encode($d, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT), "\n\n";
?>

L'exemple ci-dessus va afficher :

Normal : ["<foo>","'bar'","\"baz\"","&blong&","\u00e9"]
Tags : ["\u003Cfoo\u003E","'bar'","\"baz\"","&blong&","\u00e9"]
Apos : ["<foo>","\u0027bar\u0027","\"baz\"","&blong&","\u00e9"]
Quot : ["<foo>","'bar'","\u0022baz\u0022","&blong&","\u00e9"]
Amp : ["<foo>","'bar'","\"baz\"","\u0026blong\u0026","\u00e9"]
Unicode : ["<foo>","'bar'","\"baz\"","&blong&","é"]
Toutes : ["\u003Cfoo\u003E","\u0027bar\u0027","\u0022baz\u0022","\u0026blong\u0026","é"]

Tableau vide sous forme de tableau : []
Tableau vide sous forme d'objet : {}

Tableau non-associatif sous forme de tableau : [[1,2,3]]
Tableau non-associatif sous forme d'objet : {"0":{"0":1,"1":2,"2":3}}

Tableau associatif affiché comme objet: {"foo":"bar","baz":"long"}
Tableau associatif affiché comme objet: {"foo":"bar","baz":"long"}

Exemple #3 Exemple avec l'option JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK

<?php
echo "Les chaînes représentant des nombres sont automatiquement converties en nombres".PHP_EOL;
$numbers = array('+123123', '-123123', '1.2e3', '0.00001');
var_dump(
$numbers,
json_encode($numbers, JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK)
);
echo
"Chaînes contenant des nombres non formattés proprement".PHP_EOL;
$strings = array('+a33123456789', 'a123');
var_dump(
$strings,
json_encode($strings, JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK)
);
?>

Résultat de l'exemple ci-dessus est similaire à :

Les chaînes représentant des nombres sont automatiquement converties en nombres
array(4) {
  [0]=>
  string(7) "+123123"
  [1]=>
  string(7) "-123123"
  [2]=>
  string(5) "1.2e3"
  [3]=>
  string(7) "0.00001"
}
string(28) "[123123,-123123,1200,1.0e-5]"
Chaînes contenant des nombres non formattés proprement
array(2) {
  [0]=>
  string(13) "+a33123456789"
  [1]=>
  string(4) "a123"
}
string(24) "["+a33123456789","a123"]"

Exemple #4 Exemple avec un tableau séquentiel et un tableau non-séquentiel

<?php
echo "Tableau séquentiel".PHP_EOL;
$sequential = array("foo", "bar", "baz", "blong");
var_dump(
$sequential,
json_encode($sequential)
);

echo
PHP_EOL."Tableau non-séquentiel".PHP_EOL;
$nonsequential = array(1=>"foo", 2=>"bar", 3=>"baz", 4=>"blong");
var_dump(
$nonsequential,
json_encode($nonsequential)
);

echo
PHP_EOL."Tableau séquentiel avec une clé supprimée".PHP_EOL;
unset(
$sequential[1]);
var_dump(
$sequential,
json_encode($sequential)
);
?>

L'exemple ci-dessus va afficher :

Tableau séquentiel
array(4) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "foo"
  [1]=>
  string(3) "bar"
  [2]=>
  string(3) "baz"
  [3]=>
  string(5) "blong"
}
string(27) "["foo","bar","baz","blong"]"

Tableau non-séquentiel
array(4) {
  [1]=>
  string(3) "foo"
  [2]=>
  string(3) "bar"
  [3]=>
  string(3) "baz"
  [4]=>
  string(5) "blong"
}
string(43) "{"1":"foo","2":"bar","3":"baz","4":"blong"}"

Tableau séquentiel avec une clé supprimée
array(3) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "foo"
  [2]=>
  string(3) "baz"
  [3]=>
  string(5) "blong"
}
string(33) "{"0":"foo","2":"baz","3":"blong"}"

Exemple #5 Exemple avec l'option JSON_PRESERVE_ZERO_FRACTION

<?php
var_dump
(json_encode(12.0, JSON_PRESERVE_ZERO_FRACTION));
var_dump(json_encode(12.0));
?>

L'exemple ci-dessus va afficher :

string(4) "12.0"
string(2) "12"

Notes

Note:

Lorsqu'une erreur survient lors de l'encodage, la fonction json_last_error() peut être utilisée pour déterminer la nature exacte de l'erreur.

Note:

Lors de l'encodage d'un tableau, si les clés ne sont pas sous la forme d'une séquence numérique continue commençant à 0, toutes les clés seront encodées sous forme de chaînes de caractères, et spécifiées explicitement pour chaque paire clé-valeur.

Note:

Tout comme l'encodeur JSON de référence, la fonction json_encode() génèrera un JSON qui est une valeur simple (ni un objet, ni un tableau) si une chaîne de caractères, un entier, un nombre décimal, ou un booléen est fourni en entrée pour le paramètre value. Bien que certains décodeurs acceptent ces valeurs comme JSON valide, d'autres ne les acceptent pas, sachant que la spécification est ambiguë sur ce point.

Pour résumer, testez toujours que votre décodeur JSON peut gérer la sortie que vous générez depuis la fonction json_encode().

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User Contributed Notes 16 notes

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bohwaz
11 years ago
Are you sure you want to use JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK, really really sure?

Just watch this usecase:

<?php
// International phone number
json_encode(array('phone_number' => '+33123456789'), JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK);
?>

And then you get this JSON:

{"phone_number":33123456789}

Maybe it makes sense for PHP (as is_numeric('+33123456789') returns true), but really, casting it as an int?!

So be careful when using JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK, it may mess up with your data!
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elliseproduction at gmail dot com
11 months ago
Notice that JSON_FORCE_OBJECT will convert all non-associative arrays to objects. This is not necessarily a good solution for empty arrays.
If you want to convert only empty arrays to objects, simply convert them to empty object before use json_encode function.

For example:

<?php

$foo
=array(
'empty2object'=>(object)[],
'empty2array'=>[],
);

echo
json_encode($foo); // {"empty2object":{},"empty2array":[]}

?>
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Istratov Vadim
14 years ago
Be careful with floating values in some locales (e.g. russian) with comma (",") as decimal point. Code:

<?php
setlocale
(LC_ALL, 'ru_RU.utf8');

$arr = array('element' => 12.34);
echo
json_encode( $arr );
?>

Output will be:
--------------
{"element":12,34}
--------------

Which is NOT a valid JSON markup. You should convert floating point variable to strings or set locale to something like "LC_NUMERIC, 'en_US.utf8'" before using json_encode.
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ryan at ryanparman dot com
13 years ago
I came across the "bug" where running json_encode() over a SimpleXML object was ignoring the CDATA. I ran across http://bugs.php.net/42001 and http://bugs.php.net/41976, and while I agree with the poster that the documentation should clarify gotchas like this, I was able to figure out how to workaround it.

You need to convert the SimpleXML object back into an XML string, then re-import it back into SimpleXML using the LIBXML_NOCDATA option. Once you do this, then you can use json_encode() and still get back the CDATA.

<?php
// Pretend we already have a complex SimpleXML object stored in $xml
$json = json_encode(new SimpleXMLElement($xml->asXML(), LIBXML_NOCDATA));
?>
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ck at ergovia dot de
10 years ago
Attention when passing a plain array to json_encode and using JSON_FORCE_OBJECT. It figured out that the index-order of the resulting JSON-string depends on the system PHP is running on.

$a = array("a" , "b", "c");
echo json_encode($a, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT);

On Xampp (Windows) you get:

{"0":"a","1":"b","2":"c"}';

On a machine running debian I get:

{"2":"a","1":"b","0":"c"}';

Note that the key:value pairs are different!

Solution here was to use array_combine to create a ssociative array and then pass it to json_encode:

json_encode(array_combine(range(0, count($a) - 1), $a), JSON_FORCE_OBJECT);
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guilhenfsu at gmail dot com
10 years ago
Solution for UTF-8 Special Chars.

<?

$array = array('nome'=>'Paição','cidade'=>'São Paulo');

$array = array_map('htmlentities',$array);

//encode
$json = html_entity_decode(json_encode($array));

//Output: {"nome":"Paição","cidade":"São Paulo"}
echo $json;

?>
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Sam Barnum
14 years ago
Note that if you try to encode an array containing non-utf values, you'll get null values in the resulting JSON string. You can batch-encode all the elements of an array with the array_map function:
<?php
$encodedArray
= array_map(utf8_encode, $rawArray);
?>
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Walter Tross
7 years ago
If you need pretty-printed output, but want it indented by 2 spaces instead of 4:

$json_indented_by_4 = json_encode($output, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES|JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
$json_indented_by_2 = preg_replace('/^( +?)\\1(?=[^ ])/m', '$1', $json_indented_by_4);
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polygon dot co dot in at gmail dot com
25 days ago
JSON Encode Huge Data with minimum Memory footprint.

<?php
/**
* Creates JSON
*
* This class is built to avoid creation of large array objects
* (which leads to memory limit issues for larger data set)
* which are then converted to JSON. This class gives access to
* create JSON in parts for what ever smallest part of data
* we have of the large data set which are yet to be fetched.
*/
class JsonEncode
{
/**
* Array of JsonEncodeObject objects
*
* @var array
*/
private $objects = [];

/**
* Current JsonEncodeObject object
*
* @var object
*/
private $currentObject = null;

/**
* JsonEncode constructor
*/
public function __construct()
{

}

/**
* Escape the json string key or value
*
* @param string $str json key or value string.
* @return string
*/
private function escape($str)
{
if (
is_null($str)) return 'null';
$escapers = array("\\", "/", "\"", "\n", "\r", "\t", "\x08", "\x0c");
$replacements = array("\\\\", "\\/", "\\\"", "\\n", "\\r", "\\t", "\\f", "\\b");
$str = str_replace($escapers, $replacements, $str);
return
'"' . $str . '"';
}

/**
* Encodes both simple and associative array to json
*
* @param $arr string value escaped and array value json_encode function is applied.
* @return void
*/
public function encode($arr)
{
if (
$this->currentObject) {
echo
$this->currentObject->comma;
}
if (
is_array($arr)) {
echo
json_encode($arr);
} else {
echo
$this->escape($arr);
}
if (
$this->currentObject) {
$this->currentObject->comma = ',';
}
}

/**
* Add simple array/value as in the json format.
*
* @param $value data type is string/array. This is used to add value/array in the current Array.
* @return void
*/
public function addValue($value)
{
if (
$this->currentObject->mode !== 'Array') {
throw new
Exception('Mode should be Array');
}
$this->encode($value);
}

/**
* Add simple array/value as in the json format.
*
* @param string $key key of associative array
* @param $value data type is string/array. This is used to add value/array in the current Array.
* @return void
*/
public function addKeyValue($key, $value)
{
if (
$this->currentObject->mode !== 'Assoc') {
throw new
Exception('Mode should be Assoc');
}
echo
$this->currentObject->comma;
echo
$this->escape($key) . ':';
$this->currentObject->comma = '';
$this->encode($value);
}

/**
* Start simple array
*
* @param string $key Used while creating simple array inside an associative array and $key is the key.
* @return void
*/
public function startArray($key = null)
{
if (
$this->currentObject) {
echo
$this->currentObject->comma;
array_push($this->objects, $this->currentObject);
}
$this->currentObject = new JsonEncodeObject('Array');
if (!
is_null($key)) {
echo
$this->escape($key) . ':';
}
echo
'[';
}

/**
* End simple array
*
* @return void
*/
public function endArray()
{
echo
']';
$this->currentObject = null;
if (
count($this->objects)>0) {
$this->currentObject = array_pop($this->objects);
$this->currentObject->comma = ',';
}
}

/**
* Start simple array
*
* @param string $key Used while creating associative array inside an associative array and $key is the key.
* @return void
*/
public function startAssoc($key = null)
{
if (
$this->currentObject) {
echo
$this->currentObject->comma;
array_push($this->objects, $this->currentObject);
}
$this->currentObject = new JsonEncodeObject('
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Garrett
14 years ago
A note about json_encode automatically quoting numbers:

It appears that the json_encode function pays attention to the data type of the value. Let me explain what we came across:

We have found that when retrieving data from our database, there are occasions when numbers appear as strings to json_encode which results in double quotes around the values.

This can lead to problems within javascript functions expecting the values to be numeric.

This was discovered when were were retrieving fields from the database which contained serialized arrays. After unserializing them and sending them through the json_encode function the numeric values in the original array were now being treated as strings and showing up with double quotes around them.

The fix: Prior to encoding the array, send it to a function which checks for numeric types and casts accordingly. Encoding from then on worked as expected.
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jakepucan at gmail dot com
2 years ago
It's also worth mentioning that adding charset is fine.

<?php
header
('Content-type:application/json;charset=utf-8');
json_encode(['name' => 'Jake', 'country' => 'Philippines']);
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pvl dot kolensikov at gmail dot com
12 years ago
As json_encode() is recursive, you can use it to serialize whole structure of objects.

<?php
class A {
public
$a = 1;
public
$b = 2;
public
$collection = array();

function
__construct(){
for (
$i=3; $i-->0;){
array_push($this->collection, new B);
}
}
}

class
B {
public
$a = 1;
public
$b = 2;
}

echo
json_encode(new A);
?>

Will give:

{
"a":1,
"b":2,
"collection":[{
"a":1,
"b":2
},{
"a":1,
"b":2
},{
"a":1,
"b":2
}]
}
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Nick
7 years ago
Please note that there was an (as of yet) undocumented change to the json_encode() function between 2 versions of PHP with respect to JSON_PRETTY_PRINT:

In version 5.4.21 and earlier, an empty array [] using JSON_PRETTY_PRINT would be rendered as 3 lines, with the 2nd one an empty (indented) line, i.e.:
"data": [

],

In version 5.4.34 and above, an empty array [] using JSON_PRETTY_PRINT would be rendered as exactly [] at the spot where it occurs, i.e.
"data: [],

This is not mentioned anywhere in the PHP changelist and migration documentations; neither on the json_encode documentation page.

This is very useful to know when you are parsing the JSON using regular expressions to manually insert portions of data, as is the case with my current use-case (working with JSON exports of over several gigabytes requires sub-operations and insertion of data).
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DimeCadmium
1 year ago
> While most decoders will accept these values as valid JSON, some may not, as the specification is ambiguous on this point.

The specification (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8259#section-2) is not ambiguous, whether you look at RFC8259, go back to RFC7159 or 7158 or 4627, look at (either edition of) ECMA-404, or even at JSON.org.

The original RFC - from 16 years ago, mind you - specified that the root level of JSON text could only be a object or array.

Literally every other standard - from as long as 9 years ago (RFC7158 and ECMA-404 1st Ed.) and as recent as 5 years ago (RFC8259 and ECMA-404 2nd Ed., both current standards) - makes explicit that any value can appear at the root.
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spam.goes.in.here AT gmail.com
15 years ago
For anyone who has run into the problem of private properties not being added, you can simply implement the IteratorAggregate interface with the getIterator() method. Add the properties you want to be included in the output into an array in the getIterator() method and return it.
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mikko dot rantalainen at peda dot net
2 years ago
Notice that <?php $json = json_encode($x, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT); ?> doesn't guarantee that $json is actually an object encoded with JSON syntax. It *only* guarantees that the output doesn't start with "[".

For example:
<?php
json_encode
("foo", JSON_FORCE_OBJECT); # "foo"
json_encode(42, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT); # 42
json_encode(false, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT); # false
json_encode("false", JSON_FORCE_OBJECT); # "false"
json_encode(10/3, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT); # 3.3333333333333335
?>
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