Question

When selecting from a MySQL table in PHP the results are always strings. Is there a way to get the correct datatype already?

Consider my table:

 CREATE TABLE bar(
     id    INT,
     price FLOAT,
     name  VARCHAR(40));

Now what i have to do is:

   $result = mysql_query("SELECT id,price,name FROM bar");
   while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
   { 
      $row['id'] = (int)$row['id'];
      $row['price'] = (double)$row['price'];
   }
   mysql_free_result($result);

Is there a way to get the data-types correctly from the query transparently?

10x,
Aviv

Answer 1

No, all data that comes from mysql is a string actually and you cannot do anything with it.