Last month Gaetano Giunta posted an interesting comparison of JSON conversion methods on his blog. In it he compares the following 4 methods available to PHP developers for encoding data in JSON.

• The lib written originally by Omar Kilani is the one that is now officially part of PHP
• The JSON lib, orginally written by M. Migurski and now officially part of PEAR
• The Zend_Json lib, which is part of the Zend Framework
• The Jsonrpc (and Json) extension to the php-xmlrpc lib

Gaetano makes no bones about the fact that he wrote Jsonrpc . That being so, the comparison seems to be pretty fair. I won’t spoil the results for you, visit his site if you want them. However, I will steal this quote from him to give you a taste of what you’ll be seeing.

Disclaimer: I’m biased

I think that sums it up nicely. :)

If you are using JSON in your PHP applications then this is a short read but an informative one. I highly recommend it.

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