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: --------------- $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]}} -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=44331&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=submittedtwice 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 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44331&r=mysqlcfg