The package provides methods to encode and decode JSON.

• It throws \JsonException even if PHP version is lower than 7.3.
• It has sensible defaults so you don't have to specify flags all the time.
• It has handy methods to encode for HTML safely.
• It handles \JsonSerializable and \SimpleXMLElement well.

Encoding:

use \Yiisoft\Json\Json;

$data = ['name' => 'Alex', 'team' => 'Yii'];
$json = Json::encode($data);

Encoding for HTML:

use \Yiisoft\Json\Json;

$data = ['name' => 'Alex', 'team' => 'Yii'];
$json = Json::htmlEncode($data);

Decoding:

use \Yiisoft\Json\Json;

$json = '{"name":"Alex","team":"Yii"}';
$data = Json::decode($json);