JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK and phone numbers

Question

Our PHP API outputs results using json_encode with JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK enabled, which is important for financial figures, binary values etc.. but we have recently introduced

Answer 1

Instead of typecasting it to a string do something like this:

$output = array(
    'is_bool' => 1,
    'total_amount' => '431.65',
    'phone_number' => '"0272561313"' // add quotations
);

echo '
';
echo json_encode($output,JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK | JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES | JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);


It'l keep the trailing zero:

{
    "is_bool": 1,
    "total_amount": 431.65,
    "phone_number": "\"0272561313\""
}


Decode:

$test = json_encode($output,JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK | JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES | JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
$test = json_decode($test, true);
print_r($test);


Output:

Array
(
    [is_bool] => 1
    [total_amount] => 431.65
    [phone_number] => "0272561313"
)