Hi, I would like to introduce my and Pasindu's RFC that proposes adding of new JSON options for converting number values to string when decoding and/or encoding:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/json_numeric_as_string Personally I'm not a big fun of these options because of their drawbacks (see RFC section about that) and because I think that Json Scheme is a better way to go. However I'm not sure when and if I have time for Json Schema implementation, so this could be useful for some users the meantime. That is especially case of JSON_FLOAT_TO_STRING for decoding (encoding is a bit weird at it requires usage ini precision to do something useful). That (decoding) seems like a sort of a variant of JSON_BIGINT_TO_STRING for floats. That will be probably the only option that I will be vote for. Cheers Jakub
