Req #68178 [Opn]: JSON Native Support

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68178&edit=1 ID: 68178 User updated by: php at xkr dot es Reported by: php at xkr dot es Summary: JSON Native Support Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: PHP Language Specification Operating System: N/A PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Shortly, yes. This is not to be considered as an "echo" or "print" alias discussion. In a broader term, JSON is the data structure most used by programmers in the web development, so I propose a convergence to this widely used data structure. There are a lot of this to do in PHP, and I conseder this is not the first one, but it will be fine if PHP programmers consider this for the future. Thanks for your comment. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-10-07 13:52:09] inefedor at gmail dot com You propose to add another data-structure on the language level which will have the same semantics as arrays but another syntax or what? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-10-07 13:48:40] php at xkr dot es Description: ------------ It will be fine if native support of JSON blocks will be added in the future to the language specification. The functions json_encode and json_decode provides the functionality, but it will be better if they were native supported. For example, instead of doing: $a=Array(Array("a"=>"b","c"=>CONST,"d"=>null),Array("e"=>1.23),Array("f"=>true)); You could do: $a=[{"a":"b","c":CONST,"d":null},{"e":1.23},{"f":true}]; As you can see, JSON it's very compact and it's easy to read, also it distinguishes about arrays and hashes, so its better to understand. I hope this comment will be considered for next versions. Best regards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68178&edit=1