JSON Decoding in PHP 5.2.1 is Broken
As of PHP 5.2.1, json_decode() no longer follows the published standards for JSON-encoded texts.
Why not? For no reason other than the convenience of those ignorant of JSON standards.
Prior to PHP 5.2.1, this:
var_dump(json_decode(‘true’));

resulted in:
NULL
As of PHP 5.2.1, it results in:
bool(true)
Nice and handy, perhaps … but a blatant violation of JSON […]

My post yesterday struck a chord that many others were also hearing, as Andrei’s post and the comments that followed it indicate.
Potential developers of new frameworks, take note: Your announcement will be followed by wholesale eyeball-rolling.
Stephan and the Stubbles folks feel that my reaction and Andrei’s are somehow knee-jerk, and that if we really looked […]

As I said awhile ago, and as others have said more recently … I feel compelled to say it again:

Pipes (not the Yahoo! kind)
WebMesh
Stubbles

…. yeah. PHP will definitely never have anything unifying like Rails.
Meanwhile, I encourage you to join up with the Solar community (as I have done instead of launching my own framework) … […]