(PHP ActiveX) Pretty Print JSON (Formatter, Beautifier)

Demonstrates how to emit JSON in a pretty, human-readable format with indenting of nested arrays and objects.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Note: The php_com_dotnet.dll may need to be enabled inside of php.ini.

<?php

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.JsonObject')
$json = new COM("Chilkat.JsonObject");

$jsonStr = '{\'name\': \'donut\',\'image\':{\'fname\': \'donut.jpg\',\'w\': 200,\'h\': 200},\'thumbnail\':{\'fname\': \'donutThumb.jpg\',\'w\': 32,\'h\': 32}}';

$success = $json->Load($jsonStr);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $json->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// To pretty-print, set the EmitCompact property equal to 0
$json->EmitCompact = 0;

// If bare-LF line endings are desired, turn off EmitCrLf
// Otherwise CRLF line endings are emitted.
$json->EmitCrLf = 0;

// Emit the formatted JSON:
print $json->emit() . "\n";

?>