PHP - Opensource Diff Tool swaggest/json-diff

 https://github.com/swaggest/json-diff

Quick guide on usage

   mkdir phpDiffDemo

   cd phpDiffDemo

composer require swaggest/json-diff

vim test.php

<?php

require "vendor/autoload.php";

use Swaggest\JsonDiff\JsonDiff;


$originalJson  = '[{"name": "Alex", "height": 180},{"name": "Joe", "height": 179},{"name": "Jane", "height": 165}]';

$newJson = '[{"name": "Joe", "height": 179},{"name": "Jane", "height": 168},{"name": "Alex", "height": 180}]';



$diff = new JsonDiff(json_decode($originalJson), json_decode($newJson), JsonDiff::REARRANGE_ARRAYS);


echo print_r( $diff->getPatch()->jsonSerialize());

:wq!

php test.php