What are the potential pitfalls of using JSON_FORCE_OBJECT in json_encode function in PHP?

Using JSON_FORCE_OBJECT in json_encode function in PHP can lead to unexpected behavior such as converting numeric arrays into objects instead of arrays. To avoid this issue, you can manually cast the array to an object before encoding it using json_encode. 

$data = [1, 2, 3];
$json = json_encode((object)$data);
echo $json;

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