Richard Quadling wrote: > 2009/3/2 Scott MacVicar <sc...@macvicar.net>: >> Richard Quadling wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> Regarding http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47493, I've supplied a patch >>> to the unit tests too. >>> >>> Any chance this could get committed to 5.2+ >>> >> I'm too convinced of the parameter name and I don't think its something >> that should be added to 5.2.9 since its a feature. >> >> Scott >> > > 5.3+ would be OK then. > > As to the param name, I'm not actually changing the name, just adding > another flag. > > In javascript's terminology,the output is an array ... > > [] > > or a hash > > {} > > So forcing a hash for arrays is pretty much what would be wanted and I > as I comment in the request, we have a "force" option when coming FROM > json data ... json_decode ( string $json [, bool $assoc= false [, int > $depth= 512 ]] ) > > And the "name" of the param here is appropriate to PHP's use (assoc is > not part of JSON's or JS's terminology). > > If you can think of a better name for the flag, then I'd be glad to use it. >
The JSON spec refers to them as arrays or objects though, as does our documentation I believe. PHP_JSON_FORCE_OBJECT I however have another patch for more strict encoding so I'll try to roll this in a single update. Scott -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
