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Asked: 2026-06-18T09:52:06+00:00

The Twitter seach API returns a JSON object, a.o. containing the unique id of

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The Twitter seach API returns a JSON object, a.o. containing the unique id of a tweet:

[id] => 2.9851634017882E+17
[text] => foobar

I have created a MySQL bigint(20) field in my database to store the id’s. However, when I try to store the id, in the database it only says 2 in (in this instance).

What am I doing wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    For every id in the call, I would recommend an approach of converting the value to a string before sending it over to PHP.

    I’m doing this with my own webapp and it works great. I faced the exact same issue with the API.

    ex. using jquery with the Twitter API

    $.getJSON('https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=api&callback=?', function(data){
     $.each(data, function() { 
     this.id_str = this.id_str + ""; // cast integer as string to avoid PHP int to float conversion on json_decode

/* ... more API parsing code ... */

    also make sure your capturing the id_str value and not the id value. id_str is perferred over id and is less error prone when dealing with larger id’s.

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