note 107107 deleted from function.json-decode by googleguy

Note Submitter: juanloman at hilfetech dot com ---- 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); ?>