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I’d like to know if there is a simple way to fetch data from mysql tables with “correct” data types? What i mean, if field type is for example INT or SMALLINT is it possible to pass those types directly to PHP as integers?
I did some searching and found mysqli_fetch_fields, but for SMALLIT type is 2, for INT 3 and so on. It could be done that way, but it looks rather clumsy workaround. Is there any better way?
I’m using PHP and mysqli.
Thank you.
The most straightforward way is to build your own database handler on top of the mysqli calls that does that for you.