RE: [PHP-DEV] Removing basic types from our JSON parser

> <script> > var foo = <?php echo json_encode($foo)?>; > </script> > > will always work. The only question is what sort of variable foo will > end up being. The RFC says we have to wrap basic types in an array or > object, while currently we let the basic types through without the > wrapper. He problem her eis: A lot of people use in a way and assume, that a basic type is serialized as a basic type in JSON/JS. If we change this, it could break a lot of apps. And the above is really nice to encode PHP strings to a secure JS variant. It is hard to do with addslashes etc. So I think, we should not change the way it works currently. I think in the docs for json_encode() should be a warning: "JSON officially only supports Objects and Arrays as outer/top-level/... type for JSON serializations. So the argument of json_encode must be a PHP object or array to be fully JSON conformant. If you provide a simple type (string, number, Boolean), json_encode will generate a valid java script, but some conformant JSON parser may not be able to read it." How about this? Uwe