PHP 8.2 - Handling Large JSON Payloads with Memory Exhaustion Errors
I'm stuck on something that should probably be simple... I keep running into I'm stuck on something that should probably be simple. I'm experiencing memory exhaustion errors when trying to decode large JSON payloads in PHP 8.2. My application receives a JSON file that can be up to 100MB in size, and when I use `json_decode()`, it throws a `Fatal behavior: Allowed memory size of X bytes exhausted (tried to allocate Y bytes)`. I've tried increasing the memory limit in my `php.ini` file to 512M, but it still fails. Here’s the code I'm using to handle the JSON: ```php $payload = file_get_contents('path/to/large.json'); $data = json_decode($payload, true); if (json_last_error() !== JSON_ERROR_NONE) { echo 'JSON Decode behavior: ' . json_last_error_msg(); } ``` I also checked for any potential optimizations I could implement, like streaming the file rather than loading it all into memory, but I'm not sure how to approach this with JSON data. I’ve read that using `json_decode()` can be memory-intensive for large datasets. Is there a better way to handle this or a library that can assist with streaming large JSON files without loading everything into memory at once? Any suggestions or best practices would be appreciated! What am I doing wrong? I've been using Php for about a year now. What's the best practice here? I'm developing on Windows 11 with Php.