// treat as a JSON object
if (is_array($var) && count($var) && (array_keys($var) !== range(0, sizeof($var) - 1))) {
$properties = array_map(array($this, 'name_value'),
foreach($properties as $property) {
if(Services_JSON::isError($property)) {
return '{' . join(',', $properties) . '}';
// treat it like a regular array
$elements = array_map(array($this, '_encode'), $var);
foreach($elements as $element) {
if(Services_JSON::isError($element)) {
return '[' . join(',', $elements) . ']';
// support toJSON methods.
if (($this->use & SERVICES_JSON_USE_TO_JSON) && method_exists($var, 'toJSON')) {
// this may end up allowing unlimited recursion
// so we check the return value to make sure it's not got the same method.
$recode = $var->toJSON();
if (method_exists($recode, 'toJSON')) {
return ($this->use & SERVICES_JSON_SUPPRESS_ERRORS)
: new Services_JSON_Error(get_class($var).
" toJSON returned an object with a toJSON method.");
return $this->_encode( $recode );
$vars = get_object_vars($var);
$properties = array_map(array($this, 'name_value'),
foreach($properties as $property) {
if(Services_JSON::isError($property)) {
return '{' . join(',', $properties) . '}';
return ($this->use & SERVICES_JSON_SUPPRESS_ERRORS)
: new Services_JSON_Error(gettype($var)." can not be encoded as JSON string");
* array-walking function for use in generating JSON-formatted name-value pairs
* @deprecated 5.3.0 Use the PHP native JSON extension instead.
* @param string $name name of key to use
* @param mixed $value reference to an array element to be encoded
* @return string JSON-formatted name-value pair, like '"name":value'
function name_value($name, $value)
_deprecated_function( __METHOD__, '5.3.0', 'The PHP native JSON extension' );
$encoded_value = $this->_encode($value);
if(Services_JSON::isError($encoded_value)) {
return $this->_encode((string) $name) . ':' . $encoded_value;
* reduce a string by removing leading and trailing comments and whitespace
* @deprecated 5.3.0 Use the PHP native JSON extension instead.
* @param $str string string value to strip of comments and whitespace
* @return string string value stripped of comments and whitespace
function reduce_string($str)
_deprecated_function( __METHOD__, '5.3.0', 'The PHP native JSON extension' );
$str = preg_replace(array(
// eliminate single line comments in '// ...' form
// eliminate multi-line comments in '/* ... */' form, at start of string
// eliminate multi-line comments in '/* ... */' form, at end of string
// eliminate extraneous space
* decodes a JSON string into appropriate variable
* @deprecated 5.3.0 Use the PHP native JSON extension instead.
* @param string $str JSON-formatted string
* @return mixed number, boolean, string, array, or object
* corresponding to given JSON input string.
* See argument 1 to Services_JSON() above for object-output behavior.
* Note that decode() always returns strings
* in ASCII or UTF-8 format!
_deprecated_function( __METHOD__, '5.3.0', 'The PHP native JSON extension' );
$str = $this->reduce_string($str);
switch (strtolower($str)) {
// Lookie-loo, it's a number
// This would work on its own, but I'm trying to be
// good about returning integers where appropriate:
// Return float or int, as appropriate
return ((float)$str == (integer)$str)
} elseif (preg_match('/^("|\').*(\1)$/s', $str, $m) && $m[1] == $m[2]) {
// STRINGS RETURNED IN UTF-8 FORMAT
$delim = $this->substr8($str, 0, 1);
$chrs = $this->substr8($str, 1, -1);
$strlen_chrs = $this->strlen8($chrs);
for ($c = 0; $c < $strlen_chrs; ++$c) {
$substr_chrs_c_2 = $this->substr8($chrs, $c, 2);
$ord_chrs_c = ord($chrs[$c]);
case $substr_chrs_c_2 == '\b':
case $substr_chrs_c_2 == '\t':
case $substr_chrs_c_2 == '\n':
case $substr_chrs_c_2 == '\f':
case $substr_chrs_c_2 == '\r':
case $substr_chrs_c_2 == '\\"':
case $substr_chrs_c_2 == '\\\'':
case $substr_chrs_c_2 == '\\\\':
case $substr_chrs_c_2 == '\\/':
if (($delim == '"' && $substr_chrs_c_2 != '\\\'') ||
($delim == "'" && $substr_chrs_c_2 != '\\"')) {
case preg_match('/\\\u[0-9A-F]{4}/i', $this->substr8($chrs, $c, 6)):
// single, escaped unicode character
$utf16 = chr(hexdec($this->substr8($chrs, ($c + 2), 2)))
. chr(hexdec($this->substr8($chrs, ($c + 4), 2)));
$utf8 .= $this->utf162utf8($utf16);
case ($ord_chrs_c >= 0x20) && ($ord_chrs_c <= 0x7F):
case ($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 .= $this->substr8($chrs, $c, 2);
case ($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 .= $this->substr8($chrs, $c, 3);
case ($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 .= $this->substr8($chrs, $c, 4);
case ($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 .= $this->substr8($chrs, $c, 5);
case ($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 .= $this->substr8($chrs, $c, 6);
} elseif (preg_match('/^\[.*\]$/s', $str) || preg_match('/^\{.*\}$/s', $str)) {
// array, or object notation
$stk = array(SERVICES_JSON_IN_ARR);
if ($this->use & SERVICES_JSON_LOOSE_TYPE) {
$stk = array(SERVICES_JSON_IN_OBJ);
$stk = array(SERVICES_JSON_IN_OBJ);
array_push($stk, array('what' => SERVICES_JSON_SLICE,
$chrs = $this->substr8($str, 1, -1);
$chrs = $this->reduce_string($chrs);
if (reset($stk) == SERVICES_JSON_IN_ARR) {
//print("\nparsing {$chrs}\n");
$strlen_chrs = $this->strlen8($chrs);
for ($c = 0; $c <= $strlen_chrs; ++$c) {
$substr_chrs_c_2 = $this->substr8($chrs, $c, 2);
if (($c == $strlen_chrs) || (($chrs[$c] == ',') && ($top['what'] == SERVICES_JSON_SLICE))) {
// found a comma that is not inside a string, array, etc.,
// OR we've reached the end of the character list
$slice = $this->substr8($chrs, $top['where'], ($c - $top['where']));
array_push($stk, array('what' => SERVICES_JSON_SLICE, 'where' => ($c + 1), 'delim' => false));
//print("Found split at {$c}: ".$this->substr8($chrs, $top['where'], (1 + $c - $top['where']))."\n");
if (reset($stk) == SERVICES_JSON_IN_ARR) {
// we are in an array, so just push an element onto the stack
array_push($arr, $this->decode($slice));
} elseif (reset($stk) == SERVICES_JSON_IN_OBJ) {
// we are in an object, so figure
// out the property name and set an
// element in an associative array,
if (preg_match('/^\s*(["\'].*[^\\\]["\'])\s*:/Uis', $slice, $parts)) {
$key = $this->decode($parts[1]);
$val = $this->decode(trim(substr($slice, strlen($parts[0])), ", \t\n\r\0\x0B"));
if ($this->use & SERVICES_JSON_LOOSE_TYPE) {
} elseif (preg_match('/^\s*(\w+)\s*:/Uis', $slice, $parts)) {
// name:value pair, where name is unquoted
$val = $this->decode(trim(substr($slice, strlen($parts[0])), ", \t\n\r\0\x0B"));
if ($this->use & SERVICES_JSON_LOOSE_TYPE) {
} elseif ((($chrs[$c] == '"') || ($chrs[$c] == "'")) && ($top['what'] != SERVICES_JSON_IN_STR)) {
// found a quote, and we are not inside a string
array_push($stk, array('what' => SERVICES_JSON_IN_STR, 'where' => $c, 'delim' => $chrs[$c]));
//print("Found start of string at {$c}\n");
} elseif (($chrs[$c] == $top['delim']) &&
($top['what'] == SERVICES_JSON_IN_STR) &&
(($this->strlen8($this->substr8($chrs, 0, $c)) - $this->strlen8(rtrim($this->substr8($chrs, 0, $c), '\\'))) % 2 != 1)) {
// found a quote, we're in a string, and it's not escaped
// we know that it's not escaped because there is _not_ an
// odd number of backslashes at the end of the string so far
//print("Found end of string at {$c}: ".$this->substr8($chrs, $top['where'], (1 + 1 + $c - $top['where']))."\n");
} elseif (($chrs[$c] == '[') &&
in_array($top['what'], array(SERVICES_JSON_SLICE, SERVICES_JSON_IN_ARR, SERVICES_JSON_IN_OBJ))) {
// found a left-bracket, and we are in an array, object, or slice
array_push($stk, array('what' => SERVICES_JSON_IN_ARR, 'where' => $c, 'delim' => false));
//print("Found start of array at {$c}\n");
} elseif (($chrs[$c] == ']') && ($top['what'] == SERVICES_JSON_IN_ARR)) {
// found a right-bracket, and we're in an array
//print("Found end of array at {$c}: ".$this->substr8($chrs, $top['where'], (1 + $c - $top['where']))."\n");
} elseif (($chrs[$c] == '{') &&
in_array($top['what'], array(SERVICES_JSON_SLICE, SERVICES_JSON_IN_ARR, SERVICES_JSON_IN_OBJ))) {
// found a left-brace, and we are in an array, object, or slice
array_push($stk, array('what' => SERVICES_JSON_IN_OBJ, 'where' => $c, 'delim' => false));
//print("Found start of object at {$c}\n");
} elseif (($chrs[$c] == '}') && ($top['what'] == SERVICES_JSON_IN_OBJ)) {
// found a right-brace, and we're in an object
//print("Found end of object at {$c}: ".$this->substr8($chrs, $top['where'], (1 + $c - $top['where']))."\n");
} elseif (($substr_chrs_c_2 == '/*') &&
in_array($top['what'], array(SERVICES_JSON_SLICE, SERVICES_JSON_IN_ARR, SERVICES_JSON_IN_OBJ))) {
// found a comment start, and we are in an array, object, or slice
array_push($stk, array('what' => SERVICES_JSON_IN_CMT, 'where' => $c, 'delim' => false));
//print("Found start of comment at {$c}\n");
} elseif (($substr_chrs_c_2 == '*/') && ($top['what'] == SERVICES_JSON_IN_CMT)) {
// found a comment end, and we're in one now
for ($i = $top['where']; $i <= $c; ++$i)
$chrs = substr_replace($chrs, ' ', $i, 1);
//print("Found end of comment at {$c}: ".$this->substr8($chrs, $top['where'], (1 + $c - $top['where']))."\n");
if (reset($stk) == SERVICES_JSON_IN_ARR) {
} elseif (reset($stk) == SERVICES_JSON_IN_OBJ) {
* @deprecated 5.3.0 Use the PHP native JSON extension instead.
* @todo Ultimately, this should just call PEAR::isError()
function isError($data, $code = null)
_deprecated_function( __METHOD__, '5.3.0', 'The PHP native JSON extension' );
if (class_exists('pear')) {
return PEAR::isError($data, $code);
} elseif (is_object($data) && ($data instanceof services_json_error ||
is_subclass_of($data, 'services_json_error'))) {
* Calculates length of string in bytes
* @deprecated 5.3.0 Use the PHP native JSON extension instead.
_deprecated_function( __METHOD__, '5.3.0', 'The PHP native JSON extension' );
if ( $this->_mb_strlen ) {
return mb_strlen( $str, "8bit" );
* Returns part of a string, interpreting $start and $length as number of bytes.
* @deprecated 5.3.0 Use the PHP native JSON extension instead.
function substr8( $string, $start, $length=false )
_deprecated_function( __METHOD__, '5.3.0', 'The PHP native JSON extension' );
if ( $length === false ) {
$length = $this->strlen8( $string ) - $start;
if ( $this->_mb_substr ) {
return mb_substr( $string, $start, $length, "8bit" );
return substr( $string, $start, $length );
if (class_exists('PEAR_Error')) {
class Services_JSON_Error extends PEAR_Error
* @deprecated 5.3.0 Use the PHP native JSON extension instead.
function __construct($message = 'unknown error', $code = null,
$mode = null, $options = null, $userinfo = null)
_deprecated_function( __METHOD__, '5.3.0', 'The PHP native JSON extension' );
parent::PEAR_Error($message, $code, $mode, $options, $userinfo);
* @deprecated 5.3.0 Use __construct() instead.