Prevent quoting of certain values with PHP json_encode()

Question

When using PHP\'s json_encode to encode an array as a JSON string, is there any way at all to prevent the function from quoting specific values in the returned string? The r

Answer 1

my quickfix was this:

$myobject->withquotes = 'mystring';
$myobject->withoutquotes = '##noquote## mystring ##noquote##';

and later

str_replace(array('"##noquote## ', ' ##noquote##"'), '', json_encode($myobject))

result is something like this

{"withquotes":"mystring","withoutquotes":mystring}