diff --git a/codepot/src/codepot/helpers/codepot_helper.php b/codepot/src/codepot/helpers/codepot_helper.php
index c3dac77a..6dc1b357 100644
--- a/codepot/src/codepot/helpers/codepot_helper.php
+++ b/codepot/src/codepot/helpers/codepot_helper.php
@@ -27,3 +27,86 @@ if ( ! function_exists('codepot_merge_path'))
 		else return $base . $path;
 	}
 }
+
+
+
+if ( !function_exists ('codepot_json_encode'))
+{
+	function codepot_json_encode( $data ) 
+	{
+		if( is_array($data) || is_object($data) ) 
+		{
+			$islist = is_array($data) && ( empty($data) || array_keys($data) === range(0,count($data)-1) );
+
+			if( $islist ) 
+			{
+				$json = '[' . implode(',', array_map('codepot_json_encode', $data) ) . ']';
+			} 
+			else 
+			{
+				$items = Array();
+				foreach( $data as $key => $value ) 
+				{
+					$items[] = codepot_json_encode("$key") . ':' . codepot_json_encode($value);
+				}
+				$json = '{' . implode(',', $items) . '}';
+			}
+		} 
+		elseif( is_string($data) ) 
+		{
+			# Escape non-printable or Non-ASCII characters.
+			# I also put the \\ character first, as suggested in comments on the 'addclashes' page.
+			$string = '"' . addcslashes($data, "\\\"\n\r\t/" . chr(8) . chr(12)) . '"';
+			$json    = '';
+			$len    = strlen($string);
+			# Convert UTF-8 to Hexadecimal Codepoints.
+			for( $i = 0; $i < $len; $i++ ) 
+			{
+				$char = $string[$i];
+				$c1 = ord($char);
+			   
+				# Single byte;
+				if( $c1 <128 ) 
+				{
+					$json .= ($c1 > 31) ? $char : sprintf("\\u%04x", $c1);
+					continue;
+				}
+			   
+				# Double byte
+				$c2 = ord($string[++$i]);
+				if ( ($c1 & 32) === 0 )
+				{
+					$json .= sprintf("\\u%04x", ($c1 - 192) * 64 + $c2 - 128);
+					continue;
+				}
+			   
+				# Triple
+				$c3 = ord($string[++$i]);
+				if( ($c1 & 16) === 0 )
+				{
+					$json .= sprintf("\\u%04x", (($c1 - 224) <<12) + (($c2 - 128) << 6) + ($c3 - 128));
+					continue;
+				}
+				   
+				# Quadruple
+				$c4 = ord($string[++$i]);
+				if( ($c1 & 8 ) === 0 )
+				{
+					$u = (($c1 & 15) << 2) + (($c2>>4) & 3) - 1;
+
+					$w1 = (54<<10) + ($u<<6) + (($c2 & 15) << 2) + (($c3>>4) & 3);
+					$w2 = (55<<10) + (($c3 & 15)<<6) + ($c4-128);
+					$json .= sprintf("\\u%04x\\u%04x", $w1, $w2);
+				}
+			}
+		} 
+		else 
+		{
+			# int, floats, bools, null
+			$json = strtolower(var_export( $data, true ));
+		}
+		return $json;
+	} 
+
+}
+