Beautyfying HTML/ Strings

PHP
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Hi

Is there anyway in PHP (or in JS) you can beautify or properly indent the following jSON code?

I tried wrapping them up using “<Pre>” tags but it did not work. When I say beautify i mean the below code should be converted to something like this http://i.imgur.com/4YT5BIt.png


{"result":{"64":{"id":64,"status":"sent","sent":10,"received":10,"remaining":0,"unique_views":8,"viewed":10,"clicked":0,"clicker":0,"hard_bounce":0,"soft_bounce":0,"unsub":0,"complaints":0,"listid":[140],"campaign_name":"18:22","tags":"","subject":"18:22","from_name":"[DEFAULT_FROM_NAME]","from_email":"[DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL]","reply_to":"[DEFAULT_REPLY_TO]","stats_by_domain":{"gmail.com":{"sent":10,"received":null,"viewed":10,"clicked":0,"hard_bounce":0,"unsub":0,"complaints":0}},"scheduled_date":"2013-02-28 07:00:00","bat_sent":"yes"}}}

Thanks for any help.

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Depending on which browser you use you can get JSON prettify plugins which format the JSON in real time when you dump the source to the browser.

3

For testing purposes i often copy json strings into the http://jsonlint.com/ validator which formats the json as your describing.

4

No, i am actually looking for a PHP/JS plugin or snippet so that i can add it to my code.

Thanks

5

Its not worth it, for testing purposes its more beneficial to use a browser tool which is dynamic for every project that you use JSON in compared to using a server side parser which can lag your script.

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i was taking a look into http://jsonlint.com/ and it seems they are using some JS to format the JSON properly. Can I not use something like that? And since its JS to it wont be an overhead for the server.

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For what it’s worth, as of PHP 5.4.0 there is an option to the json_encode() function called JSON_PRETTY_PRINT which will indent the JSON for you.

Here’s an example with your JSON.