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[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing) 4. / 5. adhocore/json-comment ActiveLibrary[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing) adhocore/json-comment ===================== Lightweight JSON comment stripper library for PHP 1.2.1(3y ago)33629.7k—2.9%6[1 issues](https://github.com/adhocore/php-json-comment/issues)8MITPHPPHP >=7.0CI failing Since Aug 12Pushed 2y ago1 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/adhocore/php-json-comment)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/adhocore/json-comment)[ Fund](https://paypal.me/ji10)[ GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/adhocore)[ RSS](/packages/adhocore-json-comment/feed)WikiDiscussions main Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelog (10)Dependencies (1)Versions (16)Used By (8) adhocore/json-comment --------------------- [](#adhocorejson-comment) [![Latest Version](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/e832cddefd90ce6bf77f6763631b03de5dc91cf7c0bb648a4748ba90999761cd/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f72656c656173652f6164686f636f72652f7068702d6a736f6e2d636f6d6d656e742e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://github.com/adhocore/php-json-comment/releases)[![Travis Build](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/a0acf0344b73cff90fabaada7e3ec28c1344b42aaef10ecd28d9345c5824eb17/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7472617669732f6164686f636f72652f7068702d6a736f6e2d636f6d6d656e742f6d61696e2e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://travis-ci.org/adhocore/php-json-comment?branch=main)[![Scrutinizer CI](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/65ae1e367d3012efc4ec391102baf4e19a2427c7a1e5871b5731272b0eef6ff2/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7363727574696e697a65722f672f6164686f636f72652f7068702d6a736f6e2d636f6d6d656e742e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://scrutinizer-ci.com/g/adhocore/php-json-comment/?branch=main)[![Codecov branch](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/ed915bc7a4d49e2eaf34e64693029fc8a0e737e829e4b3677367e93ba027fee3/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f636f6465636f762f632f6769746875622f6164686f636f72652f7068702d6a736f6e2d636f6d6d656e742f6d61696e2e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://codecov.io/gh/adhocore/php-json-comment)[![StyleCI](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/c137e1a5a7fb8bdaa0f13ee735339dbb2fa3fd2c09b597b879bedad60146fdc2/68747470733a2f2f7374796c6563692e696f2f7265706f732f3130303131373139392f736869656c64)](https://styleci.io/repos/100117199)[![Software License](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/55c0218c8f8009f06ad4ddae837ddd05301481fcf0dff8e0ed9dadda8780713e/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f62616467652f6c6963656e73652d4d49542d627269676874677265656e2e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](LICENSE)[![Tweet](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/cb820a0ecc9645168e33b03925d7f14691262ddbaeaf66a0a91697803d0cba2d/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f747769747465722f75726c2f687474702f736869656c64732e696f2e7376673f7374796c653d736f6369616c)](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Flexible+JSON+parser+with+comments+and+newline+support+in+PHP&url=https://github.com/adhocore/php-json-comment&hashtags=php,json,flexible-json,json-comment)[![Support](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/6687993dc9b60228356720a501b7c197c8c9a82194cac1b1c72d0dea95e6ad32/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7374617469632f76313f6c6162656c3d537570706f7274266d6573736167653d254532253944254134266c6f676f3d476974487562)](https://github.com/sponsors/adhocore) - Lightweight JSON comment stripper library for PHP. - Makes possible to have comment in any form of JSON data. - Supported comments: single line `// comment` or multi line `/* comment */`. - Also strips trailing comma at the end of array or object, eg: - `[1,2,,]` => `[1,2]` - `{"x":1,,}` => `{"x":1}` - Handles literal LF (newline/linefeed) within string notation so that we can have multiline string - Supports JSON string inside JSON string (see ticket [\#15](https://github.com/adhocore/php-json-comment/issues/15) and PR [\#16](https://github.com/adhocore/php-json-comment/pull/16)) - Zero dependency (no vendor bloat). Installation ------------ [](#installation) ``` composer require adhocore/json-comment # for php5.6 composer require adhocore/json-comment:^0.2 ``` Usage ----- [](#usage) ``` use Ahc\Json\Comment; // The JSON string! $someJsonText = '{"a":1, "b":2,// comment "c":3 /* inline comment */, // comment "d":/* also a comment */"d", /* creepy comment*/"e":2.3, /* multi line comment */ "f":"f1",}'; // OR $someJsonText = file_get_contents('...'); // Strip only! (new Comment)->strip($someJsonText); // Strip and decode! (new Comment)->decode($someJsonText); // You can pass args like in `json_decode` (new Comment)->decode($someJsonText, $assoc = true, $depth = 512, $options = JSON_BIGINT_AS_STRING); // Or you can use static alias of decode: Comment::parse($json, true); # Or use file directly Comment::parseFromFile('/path/to/file.json', true); ``` ### Example [](#example) An example JSON that this library can parse: ``` { "name": "adhocore/json-comment", "description": "JSON comment stripper library for PHP. There is literal line break just above this line but that's okay", "type":/* This is creepy comment */ "library", "keywords": [ "json", "comment", // Single line comment, Notice the comma below: "strip-comment", ], "license": "MIT", /* * This is a multiline * comment. */ "authors": [ { "name": "Jitendra Adhikari", "email": "jiten.adhikary@gmail.com", }, ], "autoload": { "psr-4": { "Ahc\\Json\\": "src/", }, }, "autoload-dev": { "psr-4": { "Ahc\\Json\\Test\\": "tests/", }, }, "require": { "php": ">=7.0", "ext-ctype": "*", }, "require-dev": { "phpunit/phpunit": "^6.5 || ^7.5 || ^8.5", }, "scripts": { "test": "phpunit", "echo": "echo '// This is not comment'", "test:cov": "phpunit --coverage-text", }, } ``` ### Health Score 42 — FairBetter than 90% of packages Maintenance19 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity48 Moderate usage in the ecosystem Community23 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity66 Established project with proven stability Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 92.2% of commits — single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window. **Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores. **Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement. **Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability. ### Release Activity Cadence Every ~144 days Recently: every ~136 days Total 14 Last Release 1324d ago Major Versions 0.2.0 → 1.0.02021-04-05 PHP version history (2 changes)v0.0.7PHP >=5.4 1.0.0PHP >=7.0 ### Community Maintainers ![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2908547?v=4)[Jitendra Adhikari](/maintainers/adhocore)[@adhocore](https://github.com/adhocore) --- Top Contributors [![adhocore](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2908547?v=4)](https://github.com/adhocore "adhocore (94 commits)")[![martijnengler](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/929994?v=4)](https://github.com/martijnengler "martijnengler (5 commits)")[![dependabot-preview[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/2141?v=4)](https://github.com/dependabot-preview[bot] "dependabot-preview[bot] (1 commits)")[![peter279k](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9021747?v=4)](https://github.com/peter279k "peter279k (1 commits)")[![StyleCIBot](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11048387?v=4)](https://github.com/StyleCIBot "StyleCIBot (1 commits)") --- Tags adhocorecommenthacktoberfesthuman-jsonjsonjson-commentjson5json5-parserphpstrip-commentjsoncommentstrip-comment ### Code Quality TestsPHPUnit ### Embed Badge ![Health badge](/badges/adhocore-json-comment/health.svg) ``` [![Health](https://phpackages.com/badges/adhocore-json-comment/health.svg)](https://phpackages.com/packages/adhocore-json-comment) ``` ### Alternatives [justinrainbow/json-schema A library to validate a json schema. 3.6k316.9M612](/packages/justinrainbow-json-schema)[mtdowling/jmespath.php Declaratively specify how to extract elements from a JSON document 2.0k472.8M135](/packages/mtdowling-jmespathphp)[jms/serializer Library for (de-)serializing data of any complexity; supports XML, and JSON. 2.3k135.8M851](/packages/jms-serializer)[jms/serializer-bundle Allows you to easily serialize, and deserialize data of any complexity 1.8k89.3M627](/packages/jms-serializer-bundle)[colinodell/json5 UTF-8 compatible JSON5 parser for PHP 30422.2M45](/packages/colinodell-json5)[clue/ndjson-react Streaming newline-delimited JSON (NDJSON) parser and encoder for ReactPHP. 15467.7M16](/packages/clue-ndjson-react) PHPackages © 2026 [Directory](/)[Categories](/categories)[Trending](/trending)[Changelog](/changelog)[Analyze](/analyze)