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Bug #38440 json_decode() on boolean strings returns NULL
Submitted: 2006-08-13 07:05 UTC Modified: 2006-08-13 08:47 UTC
From: clay at killersoft dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Unknown/Other Function
PHP Version: 5.2.0RC1 OS: Mac OS X 10.4.7
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-08-13 07:05 UTC] clay at killersoft dot com 
Description:
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JSON decoder returns NULL when passed a string containing 'true'.

Reproduce code:
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var_dump(json_decode('true'));

Expected result:
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bool(true)

Actual result:
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NULL

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 [2006-08-13 07:23 UTC] clay at killersoft dot com 
var_dump(json_decode('false'));

Should return:

bool(false);

Actually returns:

NULL
 [2006-08-13 08:47 UTC] clay at killersoft dot com 
fail1.json of the JSON_checker test suite says:

"A JSON payload should be an object or array, not a string."

Sorry about the noise.
 
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