Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) For PHP Developers

JSON sends field names with every record. Three records with six fields isn't a problem. Five hundred records with six fields means you're paying to tokenize the same keys 500 times. TOON writes the field names once as a header row and puts each record on a single comma-separated line. This video covers: * Why JSON repetition becomes a real cost at scale * How TOON's tabular format works * The toon-php library (Toon::encode / Toon::decode) * What to put in your system prompt so the model reads the format correctly * When TOON makes sense and when JSON is still the right call toon-php: https://github.com/HelgeSverre/toon-php **Chapters:** 00:00 Intro 01:01 The Problem 01:58 What is TOON 03:35 Working with TOON in your prompts 04:06 Sending Toon to the LLM 04:26 Gotchas 06:01 What You Need To Know 06:29 Outro #PHP #SoftwareEngineering #WebDevelopment #PHPDeveloper #linux #ubuntu #firewall #security Links: Our Discord - https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts - https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Scott's Social Media: Website - https://scott.keck-warren.com/ Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/scottkeckwarren.bsky.social LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-keck-warren-91689810/ Mastodon - https://phpc.social/@scottkeckwarren PHP Architect Social Media: X: https://x.com/phparch Mastodon: https://phparch.social/@phparch Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/phparch.com Discord: https://discord.phparch.com Subscribe to our magazine: https://www.phparch.com/subscribe/ Thanks to our Partners: Displace - Infrastructure Management, Simplified https://displace.tech/ PHPScore - Put Your Technical Debt on Autopay https://phpscore.com/ CodeRabbit - Cut code review time & bugs in half instantly with CodeRabbit. https://www.coderabbit.ai/ Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Get PHP Architect Merch at our Store https://store.phparch.com/ ---