Docs: json_decode PHP function is inadvertently pulled up in DevHub documentation

[audrasjb]

I don't know exactly why, but it seems like the json_decode native PHP function is inadvertently pulled up in DevHub Documentation.

​https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/json_decode/

Interestingly, the related source code seems to be the hash_equals function.

Here is the linked source on Trac: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/5.7/src/wp-includes/compat.php#L304

[audrasjb]

Props @crstauf who raised this in DevHub user notes.

[coffee2code]

Core included a polyfill for json_decode() (and a few other functions) until [46208]. See #47699 for the ticket related to its removal.

The PHPDOC parser plugin used by DevHub does not currently handle the complete removal of a function from the source being parsed, so such functions (as the one referenced here) get orphaned.

I've removed the following polyfills that had been removed in [46208]:

• json_encode()
• json_decode()
• _json_decode_object_helper()
• json_last_error_msg()

Closing as reported-upstream since this is really a problem for meta.trac (though I've taken care of it here).

[audrasjb]

Thanks @coffee2code!