Category "intelephense"

Expected type 'object'. Found 'string|false'.intelephense(1006) on json_encode()

Please find my code sample below where I take the POST input data and convert into JSON after which I check if the data has the required info or not. I'm using

VS Code highlighted all my wordpress function name

I am using PHP Intelephense(version 1.3.7) which is the latest version and my VS Code is up to date There was no problem before but a few days ago, it keeps on