(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)
json_last_error — Returns the last error occurred
Returns the last error (if any) occurred during the last JSON encoding/decoding,
which did not specify JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR.
This function has no parameters.
Returns an integer, the value can be one of the following constants:
| Constant | Meaning | Availability |
|---|---|---|
JSON_ERROR_NONE |
No error has occurred | |
JSON_ERROR_DEPTH |
The maximum stack depth has been exceeded | |
JSON_ERROR_STATE_MISMATCH |
Invalid or malformed JSON | |
JSON_ERROR_CTRL_CHAR |
Control character error, possibly incorrectly encoded | |
JSON_ERROR_SYNTAX |
Syntax error | |
JSON_ERROR_UTF8 |
Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded | |
JSON_ERROR_RECURSION |
One or more recursive references in the value to be encoded | |
JSON_ERROR_INF_OR_NAN |
One or more
NAN
or INF
values in the value to be encoded
|
|
JSON_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_TYPE |
A value of a type that cannot be encoded was given | |
JSON_ERROR_INVALID_PROPERTY_NAME |
A property name that cannot be encoded was given | |
JSON_ERROR_UTF16 |
Malformed UTF-16 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded |
Example #1 json_last_error() example
<?php
// A valid json string
$json[] = '{"Organization": "PHP Documentation Team"}';
// An invalid json string which will cause an syntax
// error, in this case we used ' instead of " for quotation
$json[] = "{'Organization': 'PHP Documentation Team'}";
foreach ($json as $string) {
echo 'Decoding: ' . $string;
json_decode($string);
switch (json_last_error()) {
case JSON_ERROR_NONE:
echo ' - No errors';
break;
case JSON_ERROR_DEPTH:
echo ' - Maximum stack depth exceeded';
break;
case JSON_ERROR_STATE_MISMATCH:
echo ' - Underflow or the modes mismatch';
break;
case JSON_ERROR_CTRL_CHAR:
echo ' - Unexpected control character found';
break;
case JSON_ERROR_SYNTAX:
echo ' - Syntax error, malformed JSON';
break;
case JSON_ERROR_UTF8:
echo ' - Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded';
break;
default:
echo ' - Unknown error';
break;
}
echo PHP_EOL;
}
?>The above example will output:
Decoding: {"Organization": "PHP Documentation Team"} - No errors
Decoding: {'Organization': 'PHP Documentation Team'} - Syntax error, malformed JSON
Example #2 json_last_error() with json_encode()
<?php
// An invalid UTF8 sequence
$text = "\xB1\x31";
$json = json_encode($text);
$error = json_last_error();
var_dump($json, $error === JSON_ERROR_UTF8);
?>The above example will output:
string(4) "null" bool(true)
Example #3 json_last_error() and JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR
<?php
// An invalid UTF8 sequence which causes JSON_ERROR_UTF8
json_encode("\xB1\x31");
// The following does not cause a JSON error
json_encode('okay', JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);
// The global error state has not been changed by the former json_encode()
var_dump(json_last_error() === JSON_ERROR_UTF8);
?>The above example will output:
bool(true)
While this can obviously change between versions, the current error codes are as follows:
0 = JSON_ERROR_NONE
1 = JSON_ERROR_DEPTH
2 = JSON_ERROR_STATE_MISMATCH
3 = JSON_ERROR_CTRL_CHAR
4 = JSON_ERROR_SYNTAX
5 = JSON_ERROR_UTF8
I'm only posting these for people who may be trying to understand why specific JSON files are not being decoded. Please do not hard-code these numbers into an error handler routine.I used this simple script, flicked from StackOverflow to escape from the function failing:
<?php
function utf8ize($d) {
if (is_array($d)) {
foreach ($d as $k => $v) {
$d[$k] = utf8ize($v);
}
} else if (is_string ($d)) {
return utf8_encode($d);
}
return $d;
}
?>
Cheers,
Praveen Kumar!when json_decode a empty string, PHP7 will trigger an Syntax error:
<?php
json_decode("");
var_dump(json_last_error(), json_last_error_msg());
// PHP 7
int(4)
string(12) "Syntax error"
// PHP 5
int(0)
string(8) "No error"use this code with mb_convert_encoding, you can json_encode some corrupt UTF-8 chars
function safe_json_encode($value, $options = 0, $depth = 512) {
$encoded = json_encode($value, $options, $depth);
if ($encoded === false && $value && json_last_error() == JSON_ERROR_UTF8) {
$encoded = json_encode(utf8ize($value), $options, $depth);
}
return $encoded;
}
function utf8ize($mixed) {
if (is_array($mixed)) {
foreach ($mixed as $key => $value) {
$mixed[$key] = utf8ize($value);
}
} elseif (is_string($mixed)) {
return mb_convert_encoding($mixed, "UTF-8", "UTF-8");
}
return $mixed;
}Just adding this note since I had to code this for the actual values reference.
<?php
echo JSON_ERROR_NONE . ' JSON_ERROR_NONE' . '<br />';
echo JSON_ERROR_DEPTH . ' JSON_ERROR_DEPTH' . '<br />';
echo JSON_ERROR_STATE_MISMATCH . ' JSON_ERROR_STATE_MISMATCH' . '<br />';
echo JSON_ERROR_CTRL_CHAR . ' JSON_ERROR_CTRL_CHAR' . '<br />';
echo JSON_ERROR_SYNTAX . ' JSON_ERROR_SYNTAX' . '<br />';
echo JSON_ERROR_UTF8 . ' JSON_ERROR_UTF8' . '<br />';
echo JSON_ERROR_RECURSION . ' JSON_ERROR_RECURSION' . '<br />';
echo JSON_ERROR_INF_OR_NAN . ' JSON_ERROR_INF_OR_NAN' . '<br />';
echo JSON_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_TYPE . ' JSON_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_TYPE' . '<br />';
/*
The above outputs :
0 JSON_ERROR_NONE
1 JSON_ERROR_DEPTH
2 JSON_ERROR_STATE_MISMATCH
3 JSON_ERROR_CTRL_CHAR
4 JSON_ERROR_SYNTAX
5 JSON_ERROR_UTF8
6 JSON_ERROR_RECURSION
7 JSON_ERROR_INF_OR_NAN
8 JSON_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_TYPE
*/
?>This is a quite simple and functional trick to validate JSON's strings.
<?php
function json_validate($string) {
if (is_string($string)) {
@json_decode($string);
return (json_last_error() === JSON_ERROR_NONE);
}
return false;
}
echo (json_validate('{"test": "valid JSON"}') ? "It's a JSON" : "NOT is a JSON"); // prints 'It's a JSON'
echo (json_validate('{test: valid JSON}') ? "It's a JSON" : "NOT is a JSON"); // prints 'NOT is a JSON' due to missing quotes
echo (json_validate(array()) ? "It's a JSON" : "NOT is a JSON"); // prints 'NOT is a JSON' due to a non-string argument
?>
CheersProtected and private properties are ignored,
when json_encoding a class instance.
The snippet
<?php
class Example
{
private $privateprop = "private property";
protected $protectedprop = "protected property";
public $publicprop = "public property";
}
echo json_encode(new Example);
?>
only returns
{"publicprop":"public property"}here is a small updated version of utf8ize that has the following addition :
* It uses iconv instead of utf8_encode for potentially better result.
* It adds the support of objects variable
* It also update array key value (in a case I met I had to utf8ize the key as well as those were generated from a user input value)
Here is the code.
<?php
function utf8ize($d) {
if (is_array($d)) {
foreach ($d as $k => $v) {
unset($d[$k]);
$d[utf8ize($k)] = utf8ize($v);
}
} else if (is_object($d)) {
$objVars = get_object_vars($d);
foreach($objVars as $key => $value) {
$d->$key = utf8ize($value);
}
} else if (is_string ($d)) {
return iconv('UTF-8', 'UTF-8//IGNORE', utf8_encode($d));
}
return $d;
}
?>