On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Scott Haneda <talkli...@newgeo.com> wrote:
>
> I can not see it
> being that huge a performance hit to massage that string a bit once you get
> ahold of it.
Precisely. If you really want to turn the numbers into strings in PHP,
here are 2 workaround examples. Please note, I use PHP personally, so
I am not apathetic to this issue. There are programmatic ways of
dealing with it, and that's half the fun of programming, right?
Example 1 (cursor specific example);
<?
/* normally use curl, but using file_get_contents for simplicity of example */
$json =
file_get_contents("http://twitter.com/followers/ids/barackobama.json?cursor=-1";);
echo $json;
$pattern = "/\"next_cursor\":([0-9]+),/";
$replace = "\"next_cursor\":\"$1\",";
$new_json = preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $json);
$pattern = "/\"previous_cursor\":([0-9]+),/";
$replace = "\"previous_cursor\":\"$1\",";
/* note $new_json in third parameter */
$new_json = preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $new_json);
echo $new_json;
var_dump(json_decode($new_json));
?>
Example 2 (generalized json "naked" numbers example):
<?
/* generic helper function to turn all number types in json into strings */
function stringify_json_numbers($json)
{
$pattern = "/([:[]?)([-]?[0-9]+)([,}\]])/";
$replace = "$1\"$2\"$3";
$new_json = preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $json);
return $new_json;
}
/* normally use curl, but using file_get_contents for simplicity of example */
$json =
file_get_contents("http://twitter.com/followers/ids/barackobama.json?cursor=-1";);
echo $json;
$new_json = stringify_json_numbers($json);
echo $new_json;
echo "<pre>";
var_dump(json_decode($new_json));
echo "</pre>";
?>
Can't we all just get along?
-Chad
