Chad, Shouldn't Twitter be providing an API that works for everyone?
>From what you said it sounds as if you're saying, "Tough. If you want to consume the API with PHP, either run your stuff on a 64-bit machine, or scrape the raw JSON output and make it so that it works for you." That doesn't sound right. Dewald On Sep 24, 1:02 am, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > As Joseph points out, PHP on a 64-bit system can handle these numbers. > > If you really want this data as a string, you could write a regex in > PHP to alter the json string to wrap the digits in quotes before > sending it through json_decode(), but that would be a pretty gnarly > kludge. > > -Chad > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Dewald Pretorius <[email protected]> wrote: > > > All that Twitter needs to do to solve this problem is to build the > > JSON out with next_cursor and previous_cursor as string values. > > > I.e., the JSON data should contain: > > > "next_cursor":"12398712981212987","previous_cursor":"-12398712981212987" > > > I don't know what it will do to Java apps, but for PHP apps it will > > solve the problem. > > > Dewald
