Doc #60418 [Fbk->Asn]: json_encode() => Object and Array conversion behavior

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60418&edit=1 ID: 60418 User updated by: alain dot laporte12345 at gmail dot com Reported by: alain dot laporte12345 at gmail dot com Summary: json_encode() => Object and Array conversion behavior -Status: Feedback +Status: Assigned Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem PHP Version: 5.3.8 Assigned To: frozenfire Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Here a example code : #!/usr/bin/php <?php $toto = array("toto", "titi", "tata"); var_dump($toto); var_dump(json_encode($toto)); unset($toto[1]); var_dump($toto); var_dump(json_encode($toto)); ?> The output : array(3) { [0]=> string(4) "toto" [1]=> string(4) "titi" [2]=> string(4) "tata" } string(22) "["toto","titi","tata"]" array(2) { [0]=> string(4) "toto" [2]=> string(4) "tata" } string(23) "{"0":"toto","2":"tata"}" The first json_encode convert $toto to an array. And the second, after delete the second element, convert $toto to an object. This behavior must be strange when we don't know the JSON definition about array and object, explicited here => http://www.json.org/ * "An object is an unordered set of name/value pairs" * "An array is an ordered collection of values" Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-12-03 03:51:35] frozenfire@php.net I'm unsure what behaviour exactly that you're indicating needs to be documented. Could you please provide some example code, so that we do not need to guess at what needs to be documented? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-11-30 13:24:03] alain dot laporte12345 at gmail dot com Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.json-encode#refsect1-function.json- encode-notes --- The behavior about conversion in object when an array have no consecutive keys is not clear in the documentation. We must use array_values() function to reinitialize keys, before to call json_encode(). This behavior should be explicited in the "notes" section. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60418&edit=1