Sending / Recieving Data

[Danoweb]

We've all had todo it at some point... you need thing A to send some kind of data to thing B what do you use?

JSON Strings?

Commas Seperated Values?

Colon Seperated Values?

Do you explode / implode arrays ?
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.implode.php
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php

XML ?

Regardless of what it is (webpage to webpage, webpage to webservice, program to program) What is your way of sending data between your 2 points of processing?

 

[DragonD]

It all depends on the situation.

 

[spidEY]

If we are talking about PHP, I would go for JSON without a doubt. It's very easy to handle and work with opposed to XML which gives me headaches with encoding and parsing speed.

Another cool thing is if you're working with AJAX you can easily turn the JSON data (string) into a JavaScript object. Example for jQuery:

jQuery.parseJSON( json )