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

In my project I usually use an external function that "filters" data retrieved with mysql_fetch_assoc.

You can rename fields in your table so that is intuitive to understand which data type is stored.

For example, you can add a special suffix to each numeric field: if userid is an INT(11) you can rename it userid_i or if it is an UNSIGNED INT(11) you can rename userid_u. At this point, you can write a simple PHP function that receive as input the associative array (retrieved with mysql_fetch_assoc), and apply casting to the "value" stored with those special "keys".