JSON (!JavaScript Object Notation) is a simple data-interchange format. Meaning it is an easy to use method to interchange data.

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== JSON Object ==
||<tablebgcolor="#F9F9F9" tablestyle="margin:1em 1em 1em 0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(170, 170, 170);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:start;            " tableclass="wikitable"#F2F2F2 style="border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(170, 170, 170);padding:0.2em;            ">Usage: ||<style="border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(170, 170, 170);padding:0.2em;">!ObjName = {Element1:Value1, Element2:Value2} ||
||<#F2F2F2 style="border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(170, 170, 170);padding:0.2em;            ">Example: ||<style="border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(170, 170, 170);padding:0.2em;">!PlayerDetails = {Owner:"NEAT", Group:1}<<BR>>echo "Player {!PlayerDetails.Owner} is in group {!PlayerDetails.Group}" ||


This method allows you to create and define a JSON Object and its elements. A JSON object is defined between braces {}. Within the braces you can define the elements of the objects well as the value of that element.

 . {{{
NameOfJSONObject = { ElementName:"Value" }
}}}

If you wanted to echo the above "Value" that was given to the element called "!ElementName", You can do this:

 . {{{
echo NameOfJSONObject.ElementName
}}}

The result of this would be:

 . {{{
 (City Name) - Value
 (City Name) - Script stopped
}}}

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== json_encode ==
||<tablebgcolor="#F9F9F9" tablestyle="margin:1em 1em 1em 0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(170, 170, 170);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:start;    " tableclass="wikitable"#F2F2F2 style="border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(170, 170, 170);padding:0.2em;    ">Usage: ||<style="border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(170, 170, 170);padding:0.2em;">json_encode() ||
||<#F2F2F2 style="border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(170, 170, 170);padding:0.2em;    ">Example: ||<style="border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(170, 170, 170);padding:0.2em;">!JsonObj = {element:"Value"}<<BR>>echo json_encode(!JsonObj) ||


json_encode() will allow you to encode a JSON object.

If you attempted to echo a JSON Object (the object itself, not an element within) it would output this:
 . {{{
(City Name) - [object Object]
}}}
This is due to it being encoded in the JSON language. To be able to get valid data from the object, json_encode is needed.
 .{{{
thejson = {this:"that"}
echo json_encode(thejson)
}}}
Outputs:
 .{{{
 (City Name) - {"this":"that"}
 (City Name) - Script stopped
}}}
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