[Mapbender-dev] JSON in PHP

Peter Hopfgartner peter.hopfgartner at r3-gis.com
Tue Apr 15 10:04:30 EDT 2008


Christoph Baudson wrote:
> A new problem has been encountered in Mapbender. Currently we are 
> using the JSON library Services_JSON from Pear for PHP. It seems to be 
> unreliable with huge data sets. Replacing the erroneous code with the 
> native PHP JSON functions then was successful. However, these PHP 
> native JSON functions are only available in PHP > 5.2.
>
> What do we do? Require PHP 5.2? Or look for another JSON library?
>
> This matter is urgent and should be resolved before the release of 
> Mapbender 2.5
>
> Christoph
>
As long as the extension can be installed from PECL 
(http://pecl.php.net/package/json), this could be an option. Requiring 
PHP >= 5.2 would be a problem for many people using the packaged PHP for 
their linux distro. As an example, the current CentOS/Red Hat 5.1 has 
PHP 5.1.6
.

Regards,

Peter

R3 GIS
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