Handling big user IDs returned by FQL in PHP

Question

I\'m using FQL to retrieve a list of users from Facebook. For consistency I get the result as JSON. This causes a problem - since the returned JSON encodes the user IDs as n

Answer 1

json_decode() can convert large integers to strings, if you specify a flag in the function call:

$array = json_decode($json, true, 512, JSON_BIGINT_AS_STRING)