This isn’t something I have time to do today, but for anyone else who comes across this problem, you can probably enable json_encodeto output numbers from active records with the following steps:
1) Modify the mysql/mysql_resultphp file to include the$field->numeric metadata attribute.
2) Add an extra step to active record queries that uses CodeIgniter’s $this->db->field_data() totest for any fields with numeric==1
3) If numeric==1, cast that field’s value to a number.
function field_data()
{
$retval = array();
while ( $field = mysql_fetch_field($this->result_id))
{
$F = new stdClass();
$F->name = $field->name;
$F->type = $field->type;
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