What's better: Json or XML (PHP) [closed]

Answer 1

I feel the following StackOverflow entries answer your question best:

• When to prefer JSON over XML?
• Is JSON or XML parser faster?

As for which one is easiest?
jQuery makes serializing your JavaScript objects into JSON objects easy.

But, if you're still unsure...

Here are some other articles:

• XML to JSON - jQuery Plugin
• Serialize form to JSON with jQuery

Answer 2

JSON parsing and generating is natively included in php: http://www.php.net/json

Answer 3

If you've not used either, then go for JSON. The answers so far are correct in that there is a lot of help for both and you'll get up and running on either fairly quickly. JSON has the added advantage of being less bloated than XML and can easily be 'translated' to javascript when on the client

Answer 4

If you choose XML use SimpleXML, an extremely simple to use library

Answer 5

The easiest one to start is XML. The main reason for this is not parsing (for there are very good libs for XML and JSON that do this for you, see other posts), but the understandability:

JSON works with a lot of different parentheses, when looking at your XML data you will probably see any errors faster. (Assuming you know e.g. HTML)

It is also possible (but optional) to create an XML schema, that makes verifying your data automatically easy. This can save you a lot of time afterwards!

Answer 6

I use JSON with PHP because of how simple it is:

$arr = array('foo' => 'bar', 'animals' => array('cat', 'dog')); // Create any array.
$json = json_encode($arr); // Converts any array to JSON.