Question

Let’s say I have such JSON:

{
 id: 1,
 somevalue: "text"
}

and I want to create this JSON by PHP function json_encode. I can pretty easy get this JSON in form:

{
 "id": "1",
 "somevalue": "text"
}

or, using JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK, in form where “id” will be numeric, but “somevalue” can be either numeric or text, depend on its content.

How can I make JSON where “somevalue” always be in text format (with quotes). I’ll parse it by other language, where it is important.

Answer 1

To make somevalue always in “text” format:

$somevalue1 = 1;
$somevalue2 = "text";

$json1 = array("id" => 1, "somevalue" => (string) $somevalue1);
$json2 = array("id" => 1, "somevalue" => (string) $somevalue2);

echo json_encode($json1); // outputs {"id":1,"somevalue":"1"}
echo json_encode($json2); // outputs {"id":1,"somevalue":"text"}