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JavaScript Object Notation

Introduction

This extension implements the » JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data-interchange format. PHP comes with a parser that is specifically written for PHP and licensed under the PHP license.

Note:

PHP implements a superset of JSON as specified in the original » RFC 7159.