[Mapbender-dev] JSON in PHP

[Christoph Baudson]

Christoph Baudson schrieb:
> Peter Hopfgartner schrieb:
>> 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
>
> Nice, we can offer it those who have trouble with JSON and don't have 
> PHP5.2.
>
> I'm now writing a wrapper class that will determine which JSON 
> function to use. By this I hope to determine the best option for the 
> current PHP setting. This favors the native/PECL solution and uses 
> Pear otherwise.

Check out the latest version from branches/2.5 to test this. I don't 
have a platform with PHP < 5.2, so I didn't test that yet. But it now 
uses the native functions on my machine.

I'm grateful for any feedback, especially on the class_json.php

Have a nice weekend,

Christoph

>
> Thanks very much for your input, Michael and Peter,
>
> Christoph
>
>> .
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Peter
>>
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