Question

I am using PHP’s PDO to query a MySQL database. It returns numbers and integers as strings, and is messing with my JSON.

Is there a better way of fixing it other than type casting the values row by row?

array(2) { 
  ["name"]=> string(11) "Preliminary" 
  ["sell_price"]=> string(6) "864.00"
} 

Answer 1

If you are using php 5.3.3 or higher you can use JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK as the second argument to json_encode to do this.

See: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php