Bug #73650 [NEW]: why lose sql-results there type in PHP?

From: spam2 at rhsoft dot net Operating system: PHP version: 7.0.13 Package: Scripting Engine problem Bug Type: Bug Bug description:why lose sql-results there type in PHP? Description: ------------ declare(strict_types=1); is nice but not helpful when you get from sql-queries *anything* as string and so need to use (int)$row['id_where_i_know_db_type'] on the database server you have int, longint, smallint, tinyint which are clearly int - but why is that information lost and anything casted to a string? -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73650&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=73650&r=mysqlcfg