note 107107 added to function.json-decode

I found that even though json_decode() takes UTF-8 strings, it won't parse if a Byte-Order-Mark (BOM) is present. Also, if you allow your users to edit JSON files, you end up with a mix of ASCII, ISO-8859-1, UTF-8 with and without BOM. This function prepares a string for the JSON parser by converting it to UTF-8 and removing the BOM if present. <?php function prepareJSON($input) { //This will convert ASCII/ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. //Be careful with the third parameter (encoding detect list), because //if set wrong, some input encodings will get garbled (including UTF-8!) $imput = mb_convert_encoding($input, 'UTF-8', 'ASCII,UTF-8,ISO-8859-1'); //Remove UTF-8 BOM if present, json_decode() does not like it. if(substr($input, 0, 3) == pack("CCC", 0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF)) $input = substr($input, 3); return $input; } //Usage: $myFile = file_get_contents('somefile.json'); $myDataArr = json_decode(prepareJSON($myFile), true); ?> ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 189.203.136.47 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/107107 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107107/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107107/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107107/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107107/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107107/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107107/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107107 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/107107 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php