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How would you prevent empty json objects from validating in php such as {} and {"":""}?

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    Why? Validating where, when running json_decode() on them? Commented Oct 20, 2011 at 21:27
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    You can't prevent it, cause it's valid ... what are you trying to achieve? Commented Oct 20, 2011 at 21:28
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    empty()? Commented Oct 20, 2011 at 21:29

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One way would be to iterate over the object's properties. Stop as soon as you encounter one with a non-empty name. If you iterate over "everything" and don't come across one such, then the object is "empty".

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