Memoirs of a Programmer

Just a little shout out to the programming world...

If you would like to include JSON requests inside of a URL, you'll notice a couple hindering points, including the fact that IE and Firefox (or any browser for that matter) dislikes anything after the ? in the URL to contain quotes, or else it converts all of that using URL encoding, which just makes the url longer and less appealing. So I went along and made a little extension of the well known Services_JSON package which basically converts the JSON string, removing the quotes. The extension has both an encoder and a decoder. Any comments would be great.

<?
 /*
  This converts a slimmer version of a json into normal json and vice versa
  
  Values must not contain {}[] or ,
  
  Quite useful if you want to have json requests inside of a url
  
  ( i.e. http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php?request=[array_element,{object:value}] )
 */
 class Micro_Json extends Services_JSON
 {
  function decodeMini($string)
  {
   $result = preg_replace('/([^{}:\\[\\],]+)/', '"${1}"', $string);
   $result = $this->decode($result);
   return $result;
  }
  
  function encodeMini($object)
  {
   $object = $this->optimize($object);
   if(count($object) == 0)
    return "";
   $result = $this->encode($object);
   $result = preg_replace('/((?<!\\\\)")/', '', $result);
   return $result;
  }
  
  private function optimize($object, $reorder = false, $sub_reorder = false)
  {
   if($reorder)
    $new_object = array();
   
   if(isset($object) && is_array($object))
   {
    foreach ($object as $key => &$value)
    {
     if(is_array($value) || is_object($value))
      $value = optimize($value, $sub_reorder, $sub_reorder);
  
     if(!isset($value) || empty($value) || $value == null || count($value) == 0)
     {
      unset($object[$key]);
     }
     else 
     {
      //Attach to new array if reorder is true
      if($reorder)
       $new_object[] = &$value;
     }
    }
   }
   
   if($reorder)
    $object = $new_object;
   
   if(is_object($object) && count(get_object_vars($object)) == 0)
   {
    $object = null;
   }
   if(count($object) == 0 || empty($object))
   {
    $object = null;
   }
   
   return $object;
  }
 }

?>

If you would like to download the file, you can through this link. Just rename the extension to php, and you're done (be sure you have Services_JSON lying around).

I'm not that great at explaining my own stuff, probably because it's all old to me now, but if you have questions, leave a comment or drop me a message at floydroute@gmail.com.