<?php

/**

* Splits a JSON response into smaller chunks for debugging, with fallback logic.

*

* @param string $json_string The JSON string to split.

* @param int $chunk_size The desired size of each chunk (in characters).

* @param string $fallback_data Optional fallback data to use if JSON parsing fails.

* @return array|string An array of chunks if successful, or the fallback data if parsing fails.

*/

function splitJsonForDebugging(string $json_string, int $chunk_size, string $fallback_data = "JSON parsing failed"): array|string

{

// Attempt to decode the JSON string

$data = json_decode($json_string, true);

// Check for JSON decoding errors

if (json_last_error() !== JSON_ERROR_NONE) {

return $fallback_data; // Return fallback data on error

}

$data_length = strlen(json_encode($data)); // Get the length of the encoded data

$chunks = [];

$start = 0;

// Split the data into chunks

while ($start < $data_length) {

$end = min($start + $chunk_size, $data_length);

$chunks[] = substr($json_string, $start, $end - $start);

$start = $end;

}

return $chunks;

}

// Example usage:

/*

$json = '{

"name": "John Doe",

"age": 30,

"city": "New York",

"details": {

"occupation": "Software Engineer",

"skills": ["PHP", "JavaScript", "MySQL"]

}

}';

$chunk_size = 100;

$chunks = splitJsonForDebugging($json, $chunk_size);

if (is_array($chunks)) {

foreach ($chunks as $i => $chunk) {

echo "Chunk " . ($i + 1) . ": " . $chunk . "<br>";

}

} else {

echo $chunks; // Output the fallback data

}

*/

?>