Flamework-JSON - Decode bad 'JSON' in PHP

The built-in PHP JSON decoder is very strict, and will not accept things which are fairly common in the wild:

• unquoted keys, e.g. {foo: 1}
• single-quoted strings, e.g. {"foo": 'bar'}
• escaped single quoted, e.g. {"foo": "b'ar"}
• empty array elements, e.g. [1,,2]

This library allows you to decode JavaScript objects as if they were valid JSON.

Usage

include('lib_json.php');

$obj = json_decode_loose($str);

If you're using Flamework, just drop lib_json.php into your include folder.

Testing

If you have perl's Test::Harness installed (you almost certainly do), you can run the tests using:

prove --exec 'php' t/*.t