note 108701 deleted from function.json-decode by googleguy

Note Submitter: geoffrey dot hoffman at nospam dot gmail dot com ---- I thought I would advise you to be careful if using U.S. addresses, particularly five-digit zip codes, with json_encode and json_decode. The manual states that json_decode($data) will return $data in the appropriate PHP type. But it may not be the type you stored! In my case, I have some data that might be scalar (e.g. string containing "01234") or might be a json packet (containing multiple zipcodes), and I was calling json_decode on everything. <?php $zip = "01234"; $test_zip = json_decode($zip); echo $zip === $test_zip; // FALSE ?> Because $test_zip is an integer containing 1234.