JSON_BIGINT_AS_STRING not implemented

[rfpludwick]

There's an issue in some versions of PHP 5.5 where JSON_BIGINT_AS_STRING isn't implemented properly:

json_decode(): option JSON_BIGINT_AS_STRING not implemented
firebase/php-jwt/Firebase/PHP-JWT/Authentication/JWT.php(137): json_decode('{"typ":"JWT","a...', false, 512, 2)

[cbraynor]

Do you know which versions of PHP this is an issue for, or at the very least the version of php you're running? Our PHP 5.5.13 unit tests passed

[rfpludwick]

5.5.3, at least, is broken.

[cbraynor]

Looks like this SO question covers the issue:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19520487/json-bigint-as-string-removed-in-php-5-5

I'll look into adding a check to see if it's defined. In the meantime I'd recommend having an up-to-date version of PHP

[rfpludwick]

Sometimes updating PHP versions isn't a viable solution for production systems. At least not immediately. Might I recommend cutting tags so that we don't have to lock to a particular hash in Composer.