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ID: 53130 User updated by: manchokapitancho at gmail dot com Reported by: manchokapitancho at gmail dot com Summary: JSON decoded arrays have broken integer keys Status: Bogus Type: Bug Package: JSON related PHP Version: 5.3.3 Block user comment: N New Comment: A.Harvey, it seems that you haven't read the bug carefully enough and set it to bogus incorrectly. Please check this code: $old_array = array (3 => 4, 'test' => 5); $obj = json_decode (json_encode ($old_array)); $new_array = (array)$obj; var_dump ($old_array); //outputs:array(2) { [3]=> int(4) ["test"]=> int(5) } var_dump ($new_array); //outputs:array(2) { [3]=> int(4) ["test"]=> int(5) } var_dump (array_key_exists (3, $old_array)); //outputs:bool(true) var_dump (array_key_exists (3, $new_array)); //outputs:bool(false) !!! var_dump ($old_array[3]); //outputs:int(4) var_dump ($new_array[3]); //outputs:NULL !!! The bug is obvious! Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-10-22 09:01:59] ahar...@php.net Besides being invalid JSON, that's an object rather than an array. Object property names generally follow the same rules as variable names, but can be accessed via braced literals like so: <?php $obj = json_decode ('{ "3" : "4", "text" : "5" }'); var_dump($obj->{3}); // outputs string(1) "4" var_dump($obj->{'3'}); // outputs string(1) "4" ?> Not a bug; closing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-10-21 14:50:03] manchokapitancho at gmail dot com Description: ------------ JSON decoded arrays have their integer keys broken. They are present in the array but they can be neither accessed nor found through array_key_exists. Test script: --------------- $obj = json_decode ('{ "3" : "4", "text" : "5" }'); var_dump ($obj); $arr = (array)$obj; var_dump ($arr); var_dump ($arr[3]); var_dump ($arr["text"]); var_dump (array_key_exists (3, $arr)); var_dump (array_key_exists ("text", $arr)); Expected result: ---------------- object(stdClass)#10 (2) { ["3"]=> string(1) "4" ["text"]=> string(1) "5" } array(2) { ["3"]=> string(1) "4" ["text"]=> string(1) "5" } string(1) "4" string(1) "5" bool(true) bool(true) Actual result: -------------- object(stdClass)#10 (2) { ["3"]=> string(1) "4" ["text"]=> string(1) "5" } array(2) { ["3"]=> string(1) "4" ["text"]=> string(1) "5" } NULL string(1) "5" bool(false) bool(true) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53130&edit=1