MySQL Native Driver

Hi,

I would like to use MySQL Native Driver with Yii2 for all database connections, whether I use ActiveRecord or write "raw" queries.

Right now I am noticing that the types I get back are not the ones I had defined in the database.

I am using PHP 7 and MySql 5.7, so this should be possible.

When I do php -i | grep mysqlnd it’s enabled.

Do I need to change some sort of Yii2 setting?

Thanks for your help anyone, this type juggling is driving me bonkers.

Any examples?

So e.g. I have this MySQL table, with these columns (abbreviated for clarity):




consolidated	tinyint(1)

esl_id  	int(11)

amount	        float	

unit	        varchar(200)



Then when I do this from Yii2:




$get_ingredients = "SELECT consolidated, esl_id, amount, unit 

              FROM `earlier_shopping_list_details` WHERE esl_id = 10030;";

       

$command = \Yii::$app->db->createCommand($get_ingredients);

$test= $command->queryAll();

var_dump($test); exit;



I get to see this, all strings as you can see:




array (size=2)

  0 => 

    array (size=4)

      'consolidated' => string '1' (length=1)

      'esl_id' => string '10030' (length=5)

      'amount' => string '255' (length=3)

      'unit' => string 'gram' (length=4)

  1 => 

    array (size=4)

      'consolidated' => string '1' (length=1)

      'esl_id' => string '10030' (length=5)

      'amount' => string '128' (length=3)

      'unit' => string 'gram' (length=4)



I really need consolidated to be boolean, esl_id to be integer, amount to be float and unit to be a string.

Thanks for your help,

Alex

From http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-db-dao.html#executing-sql-queries

Thanks for that pointer.

Could be me, but in order to preserve precision, I would not have them represented as strings, but as they are in the database.

Since the Yii Db Connection class is based on PDO, is this something configurable or would I have to hack the base classes?

Alex