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arokettu/json
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ext-json wrapper with sane defaults

2.1.0(2y ago)07.3k↓30.6%2MITPHPPHP ^8.0

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JSON
====

[](#json)

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A wrapper for the standard ext-json with sane defaults

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require 'arokettu/json'
```

Features
--------

[](#features)

### Decoding wrapper

[](#decoding-wrapper)

Decoding wrapper is the main purpose of the library. It's killer feature is that JSON objects become instances of ArrayObject instead of stdClass. This both keeps array/object types of the original and allows to work with all data as with arrays.

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