From:             jeremy at duckwizard dot com
Operating system: Debian Stable
PHP version:      5.2.5
PHP Bug Type:     Feature/Change Request
Bug description:  Formatting option for json_encode

Description:
------------
One of the appeals of JSON is that it is human readable.  However,
json_encode produces output that is not particularly manageable by a human
- little more so than PHP's own serialization.  DOM, for example, has a
formatOutput option that nicely indents the resulting XML.  A similar
option for json_encode would be extremely helpful.

Reproduce code:
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$obj = new stdClass;
$obj->field1 = "hello";
$obj->field2 = "world";
$obj->field3 = array("key" => "value", "level2" => array(1,2,3));
echo json_encode($obj, JSON::FORMAT_OUTPUT);

//flags are an implementation example

Expected result:
----------------
{
        "field1":"hello",
        "field2":"world",
        "field3":
        {
                "key":"value",
                "level2": [1,2,3]
        }
}

Actual result:
--------------
{"field1":"hello","field2":"world","field3":{"key":"value","level2":[1,2,3]}}

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Expected behavior:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=notwrong
Not enough info:              
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Submitted twice:              
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register_globals:             http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=php4
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Floating point limitations:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=float
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MySQL Configuration Error:    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=mysqlcfg

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