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The other advantage is that php objects can directly be encoded into JSON without any preprocessing, and can then as straightly be decoded from JSON back into a php object. | The other advantage is that php objects can directly be encoded into JSON without any preprocessing, and can then as straightly be decoded from JSON back into a php object. | ||
A simple mean to encode and decode back an object into and from a storage place | A simple mean to encode and decode back an object into and from a storage place, as well as allow users to easily add/remove extra options were the main requirement, and JSON (+ JSON libraries for PHP) meet this criteria. | ||
However, note that the extra options are now encoded as an associative array, so as to avoid any ambiguities (there's no associative array in JSON, they are converted to objects). | |||
== Implementation of JSON == | == Implementation of JSON == | ||