Fatal error: Call to undefined function json_encode()
I subsequently Googled around and came across a highly-ranked blog article which makes it sound like PHP 5.5 drops support for json_encode because of some silly licensing argument. The truth is, PHP 5.5 does NOT drop support for json_encode. For a much better and much clearer explanation, I recommend reading this article.
Now, enough of the balleyhoo! How do we fix it?
It was was easy! Install the php5-json package and restart Apache. Voilà!
sudo apt-get install php5-json sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Note that the author of the blog article linked above mentions that re-installing the php5-dev pacakged fixed his woes. While that didn't help me, you may want to give it a try if the above didn't help you.
2 comments:
Awesome thanks for posting this!
I didn't receive an error at all, but this problem was screwing with the page load speeds of one of my dev WordPress installations.
It's now fixed by specifically installing php5-json, Thanks.
Hi everyone,
I've been having trouble with the son_encode for quite some time now, and I finally figured it out.
You simply have to make sure that your connection as well as the file is uff-8 encoded. The connection used to be irrelevant before PHP 5.5.
Kind regards
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