Associative array is not encoded into an object using `json_encode`.

[Maxwell175]

Hello,

I found that if an associative array is returned from a foreign function and passed into json_encode, it returns an array instead of an object unless I add JSON_FORCE_OBJECT. This is not the correct behaviour. Associative arrays are supposed to encode into json objects.

[symisc]

The default behavior is to return an array instead of an object unless you force it. That was the default case on 2012 unless the PHP group changed it later.

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[Maxwell175]

This is a link to a php tutorial for this kind of thing: https://www.dyn-web.com/tutorials/php-js/json/array.php#assoc

See this online php sandbox: http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/code/1d75b0a84813ebb107646563f5935d4aa524f37d

The result is the same as far back as version 5.2.16 (released 16 December 2010), which seems to be the first version that has json_encode.

[Maxwell175]

Here is a sample that shows what JSON_FORCE_OBJECT is supposed to do:
http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/code/e03e7d0c95e0a6528bc63fbc732fabeeed2baae4