Iterate through large JSON arrays without eating up all your memory.

To start using jmem add the following line to your composer.json file.

{
    "require": {
        "mschuett/jmem": "dev-master"
    }
}

Next setup your autloaded and away you go.

<?php require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$gen = new Jmem\JsonLoader("Hangouts.json", "conversation_state");

foreach($gen->parse()->start() as $obj) {

    $obj->stream;

}

Jmem was written to parse huge JSON files when trying to put google hangouts json data a 200MB+ file into a database. PHP is likely not the best tool for this job however when it's the only thing available it does just fine. It currently takes about 1.5 minutes to break up a 200MB file so running this in the background after an upload is your best bet. A generator is used as to not take up large chunks of memory at any time.

I have comented the code extreamly well so it is very easy to look through the source code and make changes. With that said here is the main JsonLoader Class.

/**
 * $file is the path to the file that you would like to parse though.
 * If the file does not exist an exception will be thrown. Element is
 * the array of objects you would like to have broken up and returned
 * to you.
 * 
 * @param String $file
 * @param String $element
 * @param int $bytes (1024 default)
 */

The generator returns a JSON object that gives you access to the following. Stream contains the full json object and number is the place of of the object in the array starting at 1.

class JsonObject {

    public $number = 0;

	public $stream = "";

    public function __construct($stream, $num) {
        $this->stream = $stream;
        $this->number = $num;
    }

}

Please feel free to post bugs you may find or submit a pull request. I love feedback good and bad!