Custom pages and json_decode

[tomdchi]

Is WHMCS doing something to php's json_decode function?

 

I have a custom client page where a json string is being posted from a form. I can echo out the post var before I call json_decode and it shows OK. After decode I print_r the output nothing is returned. Very strange.

Also, encoding is set to utf-8.

 

When I echo the json post var it outputs OK:

 

<?php
define("CLIENTAREA", true);
define("FORCESSL",true);
require("init.php");
$ca = new WHMCS_ClientArea();
$ca->setPageTitle("SureTax JSON Validator");
$ca->addToBreadCrumb('index.php', $whmcs->get_lang('globalsystemname'));
$ca->addToBreadCrumb('json_validator.php', 'SureTax JSON Validator');
$ca->initPage();
if (isset($_POST['json']))
{
   $json = $_POST['json'];
   echo $json;
   exit;
   $decoded = json_decode($json, true);
   print_r($decoded);

   $ca->assign('validate', validate_json($json));
}

 

Output:

{"ClientNumber":"000000002","BusinessUnit":"RPS","DataYear":"2013","DataMonth":"04","TotalRevenue":"32.00"}

 

Now when I try to run it through json_decode and print_r it outputs nothing.

 

if (isset($_POST['json']))
{
   $json = $_POST['json'];
   $decoded = json_decode($json, true);
   print_r($decoded);
   exit;
   $ca->assign('validate', validate_json($json));
}

 

Just to make sure that the json_decode function works I coded in the json string and the output was as expected.

 

if (isset($_POST['json']))
{
   $json = '{"ClientNumber":"000000002","BusinessUnit":"RPS","DataYear":"2013","DataMonth":"04","TotalRevenue":"32.00"}';
   $decoded = json_decode($json, true);
   print_r($decoded);
   exit;
   $ca->assign('validate', validate_json($json));
}

 

Output:

Array ( [ClientNumber] => 000000002 [businessUnit] => RPS [DataYear] => 2013 [DataMonth] => 04 [TotalRevenue] => 32.00 ) 

 

Anyone have any idea why it is doing this?

Edited June 5, 2013 by tomdchi

[tomdchi]

solved, apparently WHMCS runs post vars through html_encode.