Installing php json pecl extension on centos

The json extension for php enables some useful functions: json_encode and json_decode. Unfortunately the centos repository version of php does not come precompiled with the json extension and they do not have a php-json package that you can install from the repository. Luckily it isn't too hard to build that extension through the pecl extension repository. First you must make sure you have pear and php devel packages installed. yum install php php-pear php-devel You will then need to make sur... read more!

Sep 27, 2010 7:57am by Mike Vandenberghe

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