Re: PDO returns all data as strings?!

Hm yes, sounds plausible. But it's not an issue in my application. From my experience, integers on PHP 64 bit are also 64 bit wide, which is way more than I expect to see. And the IEEE double type should actually be standard. I'm not sure if SQLite supports anything beyond that. My columns are statically typed, so conversion would be doable. But why would I if there's a simple solution to avoid that hack. I'll try to remember that quirks in my next PDO application targeting other DBMS (which happens very rarely). -Yves -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Aziz Saleh <azizsaleh@gmail.com> Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. April 2023, 22:32 MESZ Betreff: PDO returns all data as strings?! One of the reasons why they are returned as string (and I think the main reason) is that PHP has a limit to ints/doubles that is far much lower than SQL. If they return int many people would have issues. I would recommend that you just create your own "passthrough" class that will set the type based on the schema (or list of columns you have in a config), this would be harder if those columns are dynamic though. On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 4:26 PM Yves Goergen <nospam.list@unclassified.de <mailto:nospam.list@unclassified.de>> wrote:

    No, that doesn't change anything.

    Meanwhile I've tried out the SQLite3 classes and found that their
    API is
    very similar. I had almost no work adapting my code. These classes work
    fine and return the real data type, not a converted view of it. And it
    even allows resolving the SQL statement including bound parameter
    values
    which is helpful for debugging. I'll keep that.

    -Yves

    -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------
    Von: Aziz Saleh <azizsaleh@gmail.com <mailto:azizsaleh@gmail.com>>
    Gesendet: Montag, 3. April 2023, 21:59 MESZ
    Betreff: PDO returns all data as strings?!

    Try setting this option and see if it helps:

    PDO::ATTR_STRINGIFY_FETCHES => false

    On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 3:31 PM Yves Goergen via php-general
    <php-general@lists.php.net <mailto:php-general@lists.php.net>
    <mailto:php-general@lists.php.net
    <mailto:php-general@lists.php.net>>> wrote:

          Hello,

          I just noticed a weird behaviour of PDO for my SQLite database and
          found
          a hint online. Just wanted to check here.

          Is it correct that PDO will return all queried values from the
    fetch
          method as string, no matter the actual data type? I couldn't
    find that
          notice by glancing over the documentation. (Such an unexpected
    note
          should be very well visible.)

          If that's the case, can it be fixed immediately (for PHP 7.4 and
          later)?
          Or what alternatives to PDO could I use for SQLite only? I need
          prepared
          statements and parameter binding.

          I know how SQLite handles data types, and it includes
    remembering the
          type that was given to it. If PHP/PDO then destroys it, it's
    of very
          limited use.

          My code looks like this:

                $ps = $this->connection->prepare('select * from table');
                $ps->execute();
                $record = $ps->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

          -Yves