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crossjoin/json
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JSON decoder and encoder for PHP with full Unicode support following RFC 7159. Besides UTF-8 it also supports JSON in UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32BE and UTF-32LE encoding. And, as suggested by the RFC for better interoperability, it can also ignore byte order marks (BOMs) when parsing JSON.

v1.0.1(9y ago)1180MITPHP ^5.3.3 || ^7.0

Since Nov 6Compare

[ Source](https://github.com/crossjoin/Json)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/crossjoin/json)[ Docs](https://github.com/crossjoin/Json)[ RSS](/packages/crossjoin-json/feed)WikiDiscussions Synced 2mo ago

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###  Health Score

27

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LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community2

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

Maturing project, gaining track record

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 ~4 days

Total

2

Last Release

3472d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Tags

phpjsonjson\_decodeutf-8unicodeutf-16utf-32json\_encoderfc7159json\_last\_error\_msgjson\_last\_errorUTF-16BEUTF-16LEUTF-32BEUTF-32LERFC 7159

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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