This is a streaming pull parser - like XMLReader but for JSON.

PHP 7.3 or higher with the Intl extension.

To install with composer:

composer require pcrov/jsonreader

JsonReader's interface and behavior is very much like XMLReader. If you've worked with that then this will feel familiar.

For examples and API documentation see the wiki.

Only UTF-8 encoded JSON is supported. If you need to parse JSON in another encoding see Handling Non UTF-8 Encodings on the wiki.