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Request #76795 json_encode option that outputs associative arrays as arrays instad of objects
Submitted: 2018-08-26 12:56 UTC Modified: 2018-08-29 22:00 UTC
From: kenny dot retzlaff at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Suspended Package: JSON related
PHP Version: 7.2.9 OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2018-08-26 12:56 UTC] kenny dot retzlaff at gmail dot com 
Description:
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Introduce an json_encode option that ignores all keys of associative arrays and writes the json object in the [] syntax instead of the {} syntax. Without having to use array_values(). So it can be used in objects that contain multiple arrays.

E.g.
$obj = array("key1" => "value", "key2" => "value2");
json_encode($obj, JSON_FORCE_ARRAY); // ["value", "value2"]

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 [2018-08-26 13:11 UTC] peehaa@php.net 
javascript does not do "associative arrays" like PHP so what you are asking for is not valid JSON.
 [2018-08-26 13:12 UTC] peehaa@php.net 
Actually when reading what you are asking for again it's just:

json_encode(array_values($obj));

So imo no need to introduce yet another constant for something you can already easily do with the existing tooling.
 [2018-08-29 22:00 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Suspended
 [2018-08-29 22:00 UTC] cmb@php.net 
In my opinion, a general array_values_recursive() *might* be more
sensible.  Anyhow, this feature clearly needs discussion on the
internals@ mailing list (and maybe even an RFC[1]).  For the time
being, I'm suspending this request.

[1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/howto>
 
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