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inerciacreativa/json
====================

PHP class for working with JSON objects

v1.0.0(3y ago)05MITPHPPHP >=8.0

Since May 4Pushed 3y ago1 watchersCompare

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IC JSON
=======

[](#ic-json)

The package provides methods to encode and decode JSON.

- It has sensible defaults, so you don't have to specify flags all the time.
- It has handy method to encode for HTML safely.
- It throws `\IC\Json\Exception\JsonEncodeException` when encoding fails.
- It throws `\IC\Json\Exception\JsonDecodeException` when decoding fails.
- It handles `\JsonSerializable`, `\DateTimeInterface`, and `\SimpleXMLElement` well.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 8.0 or higher.
- `SimpleXML` PHP extension.

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

[](#installation)

The package could be installed with composer:

```
composer require inerciacreativa/json --prefer-dist
```

General usage
-------------

[](#general-usage)

Encoding:

```
use \IC\Json\Json;

$data = ['name' => 'Jose', 'team' => 'Inercia Creativa'];
$json = Json::encode($data);
```

Encoding for HTML:

```
use \IC\Json\Json;

$data = ['name' => 'Jose', 'team' => 'Inercia Creativa'];
$json = Json::htmlEncode($data);
```

Decoding:

```
use \IC\Json\Json;

$json = '{"name":"Jose","team":"Inercia Creativa"}';
$data = Json::decode($json);
```

Testing
-------

[](#testing)

### Unit testing

[](#unit-testing)

The package is tested with [PHPUnit](https://phpunit.de/). To run tests:

```
composer phpunit
```

### Static analysis

[](#static-analysis)

The code is statically analyzed with [PHPStan](https://phpstan.org/). To run static analysis:

```
composer phpstan
```

License
-------

[](#license)

The IC JSON is free software. It is released under the terms of the MIT License. Please see [`LICENSE`](./LICENSE) for more information.

Maintained by [Inercia Creativa](https://inerciacreativa.com/).

###  Health Score

22

—

LowBetter than 23% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity50

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

1100d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/81e014159e9b6b0c7f643182caf8fda4980a32fa762c1c61883face0cc6ee1c9?d=identicon)[inerciacreativa](/maintainers/inerciacreativa)

---

Top Contributors

[![inerciacreativa](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1984550?v=4)](https://github.com/inerciacreativa "inerciacreativa (7 commits)")

---

Tags

phpjson

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Type Coverage Yes

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