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// | Author: Michal Migurski, mike-json[at]teczno[dot]com |
// | with contributions from: |
// | Matt Knapp, mdknapp[at]gmail[dot]com |
// | Brett Stimmerman, brettstimmerman[at]gmail[dot]com |
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// $Id: HTML_AJAX_JSON.php,v 1.16 2005/06/19 00:46:05 migurski Exp $
/* vim: set expandtab tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4: */
define('HTML_AJAX_JSON_SLICE', 1 );
define('HTML_AJAX_JSON_IN_STR', 2 );
define('HTML_AJAX_JSON_IN_ARR', 4 );
define('HTML_AJAX_JSON_IN_OBJ', 8 );
define('HTML_AJAX_JSON_IN_CMT', 16 );
define('HTML_AJAX_JSON_LOOSE_TYPE', 10 );
define('HTML_AJAX_JSON_STRICT_TYPE', 11 );
* Conversion to and from HTML_AJAX_JSON format.
* See http://json.org for details.
* note all strings should be in ASCII or UTF-8 format!
/** function HTML_AJAX_JSON
* @param use int object behavior: when encoding or decoding,
* be loose or strict about object/array usage
* HTML_AJAX_JSON_STRICT_TYPE - strict typing, default
* "{...}" syntax creates objects in decode
* HTML_AJAX_JSON_LOOSE_TYPE - loose typing
* "{...}" syntax creates associative arrays in decode
function HTML_AJAX_JSON ($use=HTML_AJAX_JSON_STRICT_TYPE )
* encode an arbitrary variable into HTML_AJAX_JSON format
* @param var mixed any number, boolean, string, array, or object to be encoded.
* see argument 1 to HTML_AJAX_JSON() above for array-parsing behavior.
* if var is a strng, note that encode() always expects it
* to be in ASCII or UTF-8 format!
* @return string HTML_AJAX_JSON string representation of input var
return $var ? 'true' : 'false';
case 'string': // STRINGS ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN ASCII OR UTF-8 FORMAT
for($c = 0; $c < $strlen_var; $c++ ) {
$ord_var_c = ord($var{$c});
} elseif ($ord_var_c == 0x09 ) {
} elseif ($ord_var_c == 0x0A ) {
} elseif ($ord_var_c == 0x0C ) {
} elseif ($ord_var_c == 0x0D ) {
} elseif (($ord_var_c == 0x22 ) || ($ord_var_c == 0x2F ) || ($ord_var_c == 0x5C )) {
$ascii .= '\\'. $var{$c}; // double quote, slash, slosh
} elseif (($ord_var_c >= 0x20 ) && ($ord_var_c <= 0x7F )) {
// characters U-00000000 - U-0000007F (same as ASCII)
$ascii .= $var{$c}; // most normal ASCII chars
} elseif (($ord_var_c & 0xE0 ) == 0xC0 ) {
// characters U-00000080 - U-000007FF, mask 110XXXXX, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8
$char = pack('C*', $ord_var_c, ord($var{$c+1 })); $c+=1;
} elseif (($ord_var_c & 0xF0 ) == 0xE0 ) {
// characters U-00000800 - U-0000FFFF, mask 1110XXXX, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8
$char = pack('C*', $ord_var_c, ord($var{$c+1 }), ord($var{$c+2 })); $c+=2;
} elseif (($ord_var_c & 0xF8 ) == 0xF0 ) {
// characters U-00010000 - U-001FFFFF, mask 11110XXX, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8
$char = pack('C*', $ord_var_c, ord($var{$c+1 }), ord($var{$c+2 }), ord($var{$c+3 })); $c+=3;
} elseif (($ord_var_c & 0xFC ) == 0xF8 ) {
// characters U-00200000 - U-03FFFFFF, mask 111110XX, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8
$char = pack('C*', $ord_var_c, ord($var{$c+1 }), ord($var{$c+2 }), ord($var{$c+3 }), ord($var{$c+4 })); $c+=4;
} elseif (($ord_var_c & 0xFE ) == 0xFC ) {
// characters U-04000000 - U-7FFFFFFF, mask 1111110X, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8
$char = pack('C*', $ord_var_c, ord($var{$c+1 }), ord($var{$c+2 }), ord($var{$c+3 }), ord($var{$c+4 }), ord($var{$c+5 })); $c+=5;
// As per HTML_AJAX_JSON spec if any array key is not an integer we must treat the the whole array as an object.
// We also try to catch a sparsely populated associative array with numeric keys here because some JS
// engines will create an array with empty indexes up to max_index which can cause memory issues
// and because the keys, which may be relevant, will be remapped otherwise.
// As per the ECMA and HTML_AJAX_JSON specification an object may have any string as a property. Unfortunately due to a
// hole in the ECMA specification if the key is a ECMA reserved word or starts with a digit the parameter is only
// accessible using ECMAScript's bracket notation.
// treat as a HTML_AJAX_JSON object
// treat it like a regular array
return $this->encode ($var);
* array-walking function for use in generating HTML_AJAX_JSON-formatted name-value pairs
* @param name string name of key to use
* @param value mixed reference to an array element to be encoded
* @return string HTML_AJAX_JSON-formatted name-value pair, like '"name":value'
function name_value ($name, $value)
return (sprintf("%s:%s", $this->encode (strval($name)), $this->encode ($value)));
/** function reduce_string
* reduce a string by removing leading and trailing comments and whitespace
* @param str string string value to strip of comments and whitespace
* @return string string value stripped of comments and whitespace
function reduce_string ($str)
$str = preg_replace('#^\s*//(.+)$#m', '', $str); // eliminate single line comments in '// ...' form
$str = preg_replace('#^\s*/\*(.+)\*/#Us', '', $str); // eliminate multi-line comments in '/* ... */' form, at start of string
$str = preg_replace('#/\*(.+)\*/\s*$#Us', '', $str); // eliminate multi-line comments in '/* ... */' form, at end of string
$str = trim($str); // eliminate extraneous space
* decode a HTML_AJAX_JSON string into appropriate variable
* @param str string HTML_AJAX_JSON-formatted string
* @return mixed number, boolean, string, array, or object
* corresponding to given HTML_AJAX_JSON input string.
* see argument 1 to HTML_AJAX_JSON() above for object-output behavior.
* note that decode() always returns strings
* in ASCII or UTF-8 format!
$str = $this->reduce_string ($str);
if(is_numeric($str)) { // Lookie-loo, it's a number
// return (float)$str; // This would work on its own, but I'm trying to be good about returning integers where appropriate
return ((float) $str == (integer) $str)
} elseif (preg_match('/^".+"$/s', $str) || preg_match('/^\'.+\'$/s', $str)) { // STRINGS RETURNED IN UTF-8 FORMAT
for($c = 0; $c < $strlen_chrs; $c++ ) {
$substr_chrs_c_2 = substr($chrs, $c, 2 );
$ord_chrs_c = ord($chrs{$c});
if($substr_chrs_c_2 == '\b') {
$utf8 .= chr(0x08 ); $c+=1;
} elseif ($substr_chrs_c_2 == '\t') {
$utf8 .= chr(0x09 ); $c+=1;
} elseif ($substr_chrs_c_2 == '\n') {
$utf8 .= chr(0x0A ); $c+=1;
} elseif ($substr_chrs_c_2 == '\f') {
$utf8 .= chr(0x0C ); $c+=1;
} elseif ($substr_chrs_c_2 == '\r') {
$utf8 .= chr(0x0D ); $c+=1;
} elseif (($delim == '"') && (($substr_chrs_c_2 == '\\"') || ($substr_chrs_c_2 == '\\\\') || ($substr_chrs_c_2 == '\\/'))) {
} elseif (($delim == "'") && (($substr_chrs_c_2 == '\\\'') || ($substr_chrs_c_2 == '\\\\') || ($substr_chrs_c_2 == '\\/'))) {
} elseif (preg_match('/\\\u[0-9A-F]{4}/i', substr($chrs, $c, 6 ))) { // single, escaped unicode character
} elseif (($ord_chrs_c >= 0x20 ) && ($ord_chrs_c <= 0x7F )) {
} elseif (($ord_chrs_c & 0xE0 ) == 0xC0 ) {
// characters U-00000080 - U-000007FF, mask 110XXXXX, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8
$utf8 .= substr($chrs, $c, 2 ); $c += 1;
} elseif (($ord_chrs_c & 0xF0 ) == 0xE0 ) {
// characters U-00000800 - U-0000FFFF, mask 1110XXXX, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8
$utf8 .= substr($chrs, $c, 3 ); $c += 2;
} elseif (($ord_chrs_c & 0xF8 ) == 0xF0 ) {
// characters U-00010000 - U-001FFFFF, mask 11110XXX, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8
$utf8 .= substr($chrs, $c, 4 ); $c += 3;
} elseif (($ord_chrs_c & 0xFC ) == 0xF8 ) {
// characters U-00200000 - U-03FFFFFF, mask 111110XX, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8
$utf8 .= substr($chrs, $c, 5 ); $c += 4;
} elseif (($ord_chrs_c & 0xFE ) == 0xFC ) {
// characters U-04000000 - U-7FFFFFFF, mask 1111110X, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8
$utf8 .= substr($chrs, $c, 6 ); $c += 5;
} elseif (preg_match('/^\[.*\]$/s', $str) || preg_match('/^{.*}$/s', $str)) { // array, or object notation
$chrs = $this->reduce_string ($chrs);
//print("\nparsing {$chrs}\n");
for($c = 0; $c <= $strlen_chrs; $c++ ) {
$substr_chrs_c_2 = substr($chrs, $c, 2 );
if(($c == $strlen_chrs) || (($chrs{$c} == ',') && ($top['what'] == HTML_AJAX_JSON_SLICE))) { // found a comma that is not inside a string, array, etc., OR we've reached the end of the character list
$slice = substr($chrs, $top['where'], ($c - $top['where']));
//print("Found split at {$c}: ".substr($chrs, $top['where'], (1 + $c - $top['where']))."\n");
} elseif (reset($stk) == HTML_AJAX_JSON_IN_OBJ) { // we are in an object, so figure out the property name and set an element in an associative array, for now
if(preg_match('/^\s*(["\'].*[^\\\]["\'])\s*:\s*(\S.*),?$/Uis', $slice, $parts)) { // "name":value pair
$key = $this->decode ($parts[1 ]);
$val = $this->decode ($parts[2 ]);
} elseif (preg_match('/^\s*(\w+)\s*:\s*(\S.*),?$/Uis', $slice, $parts)) { // name:value pair, where name is unquoted
$val = $this->decode ($parts[2 ]);
} elseif ((($chrs{$c} == '"') || ($chrs{$c} == "'")) && ($top['what'] != HTML_AJAX_JSON_IN_STR)) { // found a quote, and we are not inside a string
//print("Found start of string at {$c}\n");
} elseif (($chrs{$c} == $top['delim']) && ($top['what'] == HTML_AJAX_JSON_IN_STR) && (($chrs{$c - 1 } != "\\") || ($chrs{$c - 1 } == "\\" && $chrs{$c - 2 } == "\\"))) { // found a quote, we're in a string, and it's not escaped
//print("Found end of string at {$c}: ".substr($chrs, $top['where'], (1 + 1 + $c - $top['where']))."\n");
//print("Found start of array at {$c}\n");
} elseif (($chrs{$c} == ']') && ($top['what'] == HTML_AJAX_JSON_IN_ARR)) { // found a right-bracket, and we're in an array
//print("Found end of array at {$c}: ".substr($chrs, $top['where'], (1 + $c - $top['where']))."\n");
//print("Found start of object at {$c}\n");
} elseif (($chrs{$c} == '}') && ($top['what'] == HTML_AJAX_JSON_IN_OBJ)) { // found a right-brace, and we're in an object
//print("Found end of object at {$c}: ".substr($chrs, $top['where'], (1 + $c - $top['where']))."\n");
//print("Found start of comment at {$c}\n");
} elseif (($substr_chrs_c_2 == '*/') && ($top['what'] == HTML_AJAX_JSON_IN_CMT)) { // found a comment end, and we're in one now
for($i = $top['where']; $i <= $c; $i++ )
//print("Found end of comment at {$c}: ".substr($chrs, $top['where'], (1 + $c - $top['where']))."\n");
return $this->decode ($var);
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