Hello, is there a reason (technical or historical) why the data coming from MySQL is always strings? I've found only one case where the data type is "honored" - PDO+mysqlnd+emulation off [1]
We made a fairly simple patch to 'mysqlnd' which enables (configurable via ini) data to be returned (trying to match) as defined in database/table. In general something like: switch( field->type ){ case MYSQL_TYPE_TINY: case MYSQL_TYPE_SHORT: case MYSQL_TYPE_LONG: case MYSQL_TYPE_LONGLONG: case MYSQL_TYPE_INT24: convert_to_long(data); break; case MYSQL_TYPE_DECIMAL: case MYSQL_TYPE_DOUBLE: case MYSQL_TYPE_FLOAT: case MYSQL_TYPE_NEWDECIMAL: convert_to_double(data); break; } Does it make sense to create a PR and/or RFC for something like this? [1] https://phpdelusions.net/pdo#returntypes wbr Reinis Rozitis -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php