使用PHPBench和下面的类，得到了以下结果:

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

/**
 * @Revs(1000)
 * @Iterations(100)
 */
class BenchmarkJson
{
    public function benchCatchValid(): bool
    {
        $validJson = '{"validJson":true}';
        try {
            json_decode($validJson, true, 512, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);
            return true;
        } catch(\JsonException $exception) {}
        return false;
    }

    public function benchCatchInvalid(): bool
    {
        $invalidJson = '{"invalidJson"';
        try {
            json_decode($invalidJson, true, 512, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);
            return true;
        } catch(\JsonException $exception) {}
        return false;
    }

    public function benchLastErrorValid(): bool
    {
        $validJson = '{"validJson":true}';
        json_decode($validJson, true);
        return (json_last_error() === JSON_ERROR_NONE);
    }

    public function benchLastErrorInvalid(): bool
    {
        $invalidJson = '{"invalidJson"';
        json_decode($invalidJson, true);
        return (json_last_error() === JSON_ERROR_NONE);
    }

    public function benchNullValid(): bool
    {
        $validJson = '{"validJson":true}';
        return (json_decode($validJson, true) !== null);
    }

    public function benchNullInvalid(): bool
    {
        $invalidJson = '{"invalidJson"';
        return (json_decode($invalidJson, true) !== null);
    }
}

6 subjects, 600 iterations, 6,000 revs, 0 rejects, 0 failures, 0 warnings
(best [mean mode] worst) = 0.714 [1.203 1.175] 1.073 (μs)
⅀T: 721.504μs μSD/r 0.089μs μRSD/r: 7.270%
suite: 1343ab9a3590de6065bc0bc6eeb344c9f6eba642, date: 2020-01-21, stime: 12:50:14
+---------------+-----------------------+-----+------+-----+------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--------+-------+
| benchmark     | subject               | set | revs | its | mem_peak   | best    | mean    | mode    | worst   | stdev   | rstdev | diff  |
+---------------+-----------------------+-----+------+-----+------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--------+-------+
| BenchmarkJson | benchCatchValid       | 0   | 1000 | 100 | 2,980,168b | 0.954μs | 1.032μs | 1.016μs | 1.428μs | 0.062μs | 6.04%  | 1.33x |
| BenchmarkJson | benchCatchInvalid     | 0   | 1000 | 100 | 2,980,184b | 2.033μs | 2.228μs | 2.166μs | 3.001μs | 0.168μs | 7.55%  | 2.88x |
| BenchmarkJson | benchLastErrorValid   | 0   | 1000 | 100 | 2,980,184b | 1.076μs | 1.195μs | 1.169μs | 1.616μs | 0.083μs | 6.97%  | 1.54x |
| BenchmarkJson | benchLastErrorInvalid | 0   | 1000 | 100 | 2,980,184b | 0.785μs | 0.861μs | 0.863μs | 1.132μs | 0.056μs | 6.54%  | 1.11x |
| BenchmarkJson | benchNullValid        | 0   | 1000 | 100 | 2,980,168b | 0.985μs | 1.124μs | 1.077μs | 1.731μs | 0.114μs | 10.15% | 1.45x |
| BenchmarkJson | benchNullInvalid      | 0   | 1000 | 100 | 2,980,184b | 0.714μs | 0.775μs | 0.759μs | 1.073μs | 0.049μs | 6.36%  | 1.00x |
+---------------+-----------------------+-----+------+-----+------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--------+-------+

结论:检查json是否有效的最快方法是返回json_decode($json, true) !== null)。

如果有本地文件站。Json无效，缺失，或超过一个月，做一些事情。

if (!is_array(json_decode(@file_get_contents("stations.json"))) || time() > filemtime("stations.json") + (60*60*24*31)){
  // The json file is invalid, missing, or is more than 1 month old
  // Get a fresh version
} else {
  // Up to date
}

我使用的最简单和最快的方法是跟随;

$json_array = json_decode( $raw_json , true );

if( $json_array == NULL )   //check if it was invalid json string
    die ('Invalid');  // Invalid JSON error

 // you can execute some else condition over here in case of valid JSON

这是因为如果输入的字符串不是json或无效json, json_decode()将返回NULL。

验证JSON的简单函数

如果您必须在多个地方验证JSON，您总是可以使用下面的函数。

function is_valid_json( $raw_json ){
    return ( json_decode( $raw_json , true ) == NULL ) ? false : true ; // Yes! thats it.
}

在上面的函数中，如果它是一个有效的JSON，则返回true。

为PHP 5.2兼容性新创建的函数，如果你需要成功解码的数据:

function try_json_decode( $json, & $success = null ){
  // non-strings may cause warnings
  if( !is_string( $json )){
    $success = false;
    return $json;
  }

  $data = json_decode( $json );

  // output arg
  $success =

    // non-null data: success!
    $data !==  null  ||

    // null data from 'null' json: success!
    $json === 'null' ||

    // null data from '  null  ' json padded with whitespaces: success!
    preg_match('/^\s*null\s*$/', $json );

  // return decoded or original data
  return $success ? $data : $json;
}

用法:

$json_or_not = ...;

$data = try_json_decode( $json_or_not, $success );

if( $success )
     process_data( $data );
else what_the_hell_is_it( $data );

一些测试:

var_dump( try_json_decode( array(), $success ), $success );
// ret = array(0){}, $success == bool(false)

var_dump( try_json_decode( 123, $success ), $success );
// ret = int(123), $success == bool(false)

var_dump( try_json_decode('      ', $success ), $success );
// ret = string(6) "      ", $success == bool(false)

var_dump( try_json_decode( null, $success ), $success );
// ret = NULL, $success == bool(false)

var_dump( try_json_decode('null', $success ), $success );
// ret = NULL, $success == bool(true)

var_dump( try_json_decode('  null  ', $success ), $success );
// ret = NULL, $success == bool(true)

var_dump( try_json_decode('  true  ', $success ), $success );
// ret = bool(true), $success == bool(true)

var_dump( try_json_decode('  "hello"  ', $success ), $success );
// ret = string(5) "hello", $success == bool(true)

var_dump( try_json_decode('  {"a":123}  ', $success ), $success );
// ret = object(stdClass)#2 (1) { ["a"]=> int(123) }, $success == bool(true)

$r = (array)json_decode($arr);
if(!is_array($r) || count($r) < 1) return false;

对亨里克的回答做一个简单的修改，以触及最需要的可能性。

(包括“{}和[]”)

function isValidJson($string) {
    json_decode($string);
    if(json_last_error() == JSON_ERROR_NONE) {

        if( $string[0] == "{" || $string[0] == "[" ) { 
            $first = $string [0];

            if( substr($string, -1) == "}" || substr($string, -1) == "]" ) {
                $last = substr($string, -1);

                if($first == "{" && $last == "}"){
                    return true;
                }

                if($first == "[" && $last == "]"){
                    return true;
                }

                return false;

            }
            return false;
        }

        return false;
    }

    return false;

}