PHP - Serialize floating points

Question

I am generating 10 random floats between 6 and 8 (all for good reason), and writing them to a mysql database in a serialized form. But one quirk seems to emerge at the stora

Answer 1

Setting your serialize_precision value in php.ini to -1 will solve the floating point issue, or you can set it to a value that you prefer, as per the specifications here: http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.serialize-precision

PHP versions <= 5.3.5 shipped with the default value of "100", while the default now at version 7.0.33 is "17", although the package bundled with your distro might have shipped with a "-1"

As pointed out in other responses, you can override this setting in the application itself or even a custom php.ini that your VirtualHost container or .htaccess specifies.

I hope that helps :)