JSONP and JSON

Jul. 15, 2013

Let’s see what’s differences between JSON and JSONP first;

//JSON
{"name":"stackoverflow","id":5}
//JSONP
func({"name":"stackoverflow","id":5});

JSONP is the result that you can load the json as a script file. And it is usually used to allow for cross-site AJAX with JSON data.

function func(json){
  alert(json.name);
}
var elm = document.createElement("script");
elm.setAttribute("type", "text/javascript");
elm.src = "http://example.com/jsonp";
document.body.appendChild(elm);

Convert JSON to JSONP in PHP, JSONP will pass callback to script

$json = json_encode($data);
$jsonp_callback = isset($_GET['callback']) ? $_GET['callback'] : null;
echo $jsonp_callback ? "$jsonp_callback($json)" : $json;

Rerference: Stack Overflow