force json_encode to create strings

Question

I have to json_encode a PHP array to a JavaScript array. Unfortunately the jQuery library I am using will not properly process that array if it contains ints instead of stri

Answer 1

Because there isn't an opposite flag for JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK, I've created a function for that purpose.
It accepts one and multi dimensional arrays and there can be added for conditions to validate each element of te array.

function JSON_NUMERIC_STRING($array){
    foreach($array as $key => &$value){
        if(is_array($value)){
            $value = iterateMA($value);
        }elseif(is_numeric($value)){
            $value = strval($value);
        }
        // add more conditions if needed...
    }
    return $array;
}

$array = JSON_NUMERIC_STRING($array);