note 113416 deleted from function.json-encode by cmb

From: Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 10:05:28 +0000
Subject: note 113416 deleted from function.json-encode by cmb
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Note Submitter: zac at javazac dot com ---- There is a gotcha that keeps getting me with JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK. At first it seems like the greatest thing in the world if you are encoding data pulled from a db because it turns numeric strings into seemingly appropriate ints or floats. Use with caution. I've been surprised a number of times by "numbers" that really are strings ie really precise lat/long coords. json_encode with the JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK will encode these as floats but the precision of the data is so large that php actually rounds the number off. In this case I had to rework my code so that it didn't use JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK and I manually cast fields as ints or floats as appropriate and skipped my lat/long fields so that they stayed numeric strings.

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