Bug #72389 [NEW]: json_decode output date as (int)

From: nico at hemk dot es Operating system: Linux ubuntu 3.13.0-85-generic PHP version: 5.6.22 Package: Output Control Bug Type: Bug Bug description:json_decode output date as (int) Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.json-decode --- Server: Linux Ubuntu PHP Version: 5.6.20-1+deb.sury.org~trusty+1 Server API: FPM/FastCGI Virtual Directory Support: disabled I test some date format functions with json_decode. Noticed that the function return after json_decode the date as int. Test script: --------------- <?php $theDate = '21 June, 2016'; var_dump( $theDate ); // output: string(13) "21 June, 2016" echo '<hr>'; $myDate = json_decode($theDate, true); var_dump($myDate); // output: NULL echo '<hr>'; $dt = new DateTime( $theDate ); $myDate = $dt->format('Y-m-d'); var_dump( $myDate ); // output: string(10) "2016-06-21" echo '<hr>'; $dt = new DateTime( $theDate ); $myDate = $dt->format('Y-m-d'); var_dump( json_encode($myDate, true) ); // output: string(12) ""2016-06-21"" echo '<hr>'; // false output? : $dt = new DateTime( $theDate ); $myDate = $dt->format('Y-m-d'); var_dump( json_decode($myDate, true) ); // output: int(2016) ?> Expected result: ---------------- string(12) "2016-06-21" Actual result: -------------- int(2016) -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72389&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72389&r=mysqlcfg