MySQL integer field is returned as string in PHP

Question

I have a table field in a MySQL database:

userid INT(11)

So I am calling it to my page with this query:

\"SELECT userid FR         


        

Answer 1

This happens when PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES is set to true on the connection.

Careful though, setting it to false disallows the use of parameters more than once. I believe it also affects the quality of the error messages coming back.