JSON: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Use It

My apologies for the lapse in posting; I'm in the midst of finishing my first book for Apress (it's called PHP for Absolute Beginners, and should be out later this year), and it's been consuming most of my attention.

This week, however, I want to cover a topic that I feel has become an important part of any developer's toolkit: the ability to load and manipulate JSON feeds from other sites via AJAX.

Many sites are sharing data using JSON in addition to RSS feeds nowadays, and with good reason: JSON feeds can be loaded asynchronously much more easily than XML/RSS.

This article will cover the following:

• What is JSON?
• Why does JSON matter?
• How do we load JSON into a project?

We'll also use our... read more

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