I am using PHP to save a row in a database. One field is of the type geometry
. I save a POINT
with the coordinates 52.5219
and 13.4132
.
When I retrieve the row, I use ST_AsGeoJSON
. It returns me:
"geometry": {
"type": "Point",
"coordinates": [
52.5219000000000022509993868879973888397216796875,
13.413199999999999789679350215010344982147216796875
]
}
I want the results without the extra digits. This is only happening on my staging server. On my local server it returns the correct coordinates.
This is a common problem. you can read more about this from here: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41357
How it produces? When you subtract an integer number from a float number sometimes it will gives you this type of error. For example:
var_dump(214.16569 - 214);
var_dump(114.16569 - 114);
Solution:
There are several way to fix this issue. I use the below code to limit the digit after the decimal. To limit upto 4 digit:
$value = number_format($value, 4);
you can use the above code to format your data. It will show only 4 digit after the decimal.