Hi All,
Basic types were added to our JSON decoder to PHP 5.2.1, this allows
one to use json_encode / json_decode on any of our scalar types. Omar
correctly identified #38680 as not a bug but it appears that Ilia
added support for this anyway violating the RFC [1]. Maybe there was a
reason for this but I'm not sure why?
The problem here is that none of the other JSON parsers in any other
language support this and more importantly the browsers [2] which are
now adding native JSON support. Users are frequently expecting the
result from a json_encode in PHP to just work with JSON.parse() on the
client side. [3]
I have a patch for this that implements the RFC exactly and makes
secure json_encode only works with objects and arrays.
This would be a change for 5.3+ and we should just document in 5.2
that what we did was a bad idea.
Scott
[1] - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt?number=4627
[2] - http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=es3.1:json_support
[3] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_JSON_in_Firefox
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