note 110216 deleted from pdo.setattribute by googleguy

Note Submitter: vincent at lycoops dot be ---- This paramter does magic (at least for MySQL): PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES => false I don't know why, but it allows you to get the real types of a column value. When you don't use it, any type returned by PDO will be a string (or NULL), even if it's been saved as an integer or float. Typecasting in PHP can be very painful and may slow down your application a lot. With ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES set to FALSE, integers and floats (also doubles) are really ints and floats in PHP. For information: - The datatype decimal still returns a string to keep the precision. - As MySQL doesn't know the datatype Boolean, the expression 1 = 1 returns 1 and not TRUE.