Converting Object to JSON and JSON to Object in PHP library like Gson for Java

Question

I am developing a web application in PHP   I need to transfer many objects from server as JSON string  is there any library existing for PHP to convert object to JSON and JSON String to Objec  like Gson library for Java

User · Answer

for more extendability for large scale apps use oop style with encapsulated fields.

Simple way :-

  class Fruit implements JsonSerializable {

        private $type = 'Apple', $lastEaten = null;

        public function __construct() {
            $this->lastEaten = new DateTime();
        }

        public function jsonSerialize() {
            return [
                'category' => $this->type,
                'EatenTime' => $this->lastEaten->format(DateTime::ISO8601)
            ];
        }
    }

echo json_encode(new Fruit()); //which outputs:

{"category":"Apple","EatenTime":"2013-01-31T11:17:07-0500"}

Real Gson on PHP :-

User · Answer

This should do the trick      convert object   gt  json  json   json encode  myObject       convert json   gt  object  obj   json decode  json     Here s an example   foo   new StdClass     foo- gt hello    world    foo- gt bar    baz     json   json encode  foo   echo  json      gt    hello   world   bar   baz    print r json decode  json       stdClass Object            hello    gt  world       bar    gt  baz        If you want the output as an Array instead of an Object  pass true to json decode  print r json decode  json  true       Array            hello    gt  world       bar    gt  baz            More about json encode    See also  json decode

User · Answer

I made a method to solve this   My approach is   1 - Create a abstract class that have a method to convert Objects to Array  including private attr  using Regex  2 - Convert the returned array to json   I use this Abstract class as parent of all my domain classes  Class code   namespace Project core   abstract class AbstractEntity       public function getAvoidedFields             return array               public function toArray              temp     array    this            array   array              foreach    temp as  k   gt   v                  k   preg match       x00        x00         k   matches      matches  1     k              if  in array    k   this- gt getAvoidedFields                          array   k                      else                       if it is an object recursive call                 if  is object    v    amp  amp   v instanceof AbstractEntity                         array   k     v- gt toArray                                         if its an array pass por each item                 if  is array    v                           foreach    v as  key   gt   value                             if  is object    value    amp  amp   value instanceof AbstractEntity                                 arrayReturn   key     value- gt toArray                              else                                arrayReturn   key     value                                                                       array   k     arrayReturn                                       if it is not a array and a object return it                 if    is object    v    amp  amp   is array    v                           array   k     v                                                     return  array

User · Answer

json decode  json  true       the second param being true will return associative array  This one is easy

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