Description:

Zend\Json provides convenience methods for serializing native PHP to JSON
and decoding JSON to native PHP.

JSON, JavaScript Object Notation, can be used for data interchange between
JavaScript and other languages. Since JSON can be directly evaluated by
JavaScript, it is a more efficient and lightweight format than XML for
exchanging data with JavaScript clients.

In addition, Zend\Json provides a useful way to convert any arbitrary XML
formatted string into a JSON formatted string. This built-in feature will
enable PHP developers to transform the enterprise data encoded in XML format
into JSON format before sending it to browser-based Ajax client applications.
It provides an easy way to do dynamic data conversion on the server-side code
thereby avoiding unnecessary XML parsing in the browser-side applications. It
offers a nice utility function that results in easier application-specific
data processing techniques.