Handling big user IDs returned by FQL in PHP

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Published on 2010-05-25T19:20:24Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 19:21 UTC
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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 numbers, json_decode() converts these numbers to floating point values, because some are too big to fit in an int; of course, I need these IDs as strings.

Since json_decode() does its own thing without accepting any behavior flags, I'm at a loss. Any suggestions on how to resolve this?

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