Friday, March 20, 2009

Enabling JSON on you PHP-Apache

Here are the steps to take to enable JSON on PHP. These instructions are specific for Linux OS.

1. Install Pear

yum install php-pear

2. Install PHP-devel

yum install php-devel ; for phpize

3. Install json extension

pecl install json ;or
pear install json

4. Edit php.ini and add on extension list

extension=json.so

5. Save this and restart Apache

And you're done. You now have json enabled on your LAMP server.

Hope you find these useful. Thanks, CHeers and God Bless!!!!