PHP mysql bigint issue

Question

I have two tables with bigint:

table1
id bigint(20) PK autoincrement
name varchar(40),
text

table2
id bigint(20) PK autoincrement
created datetime
text_fiel         


        

Answer 1

You need to CONVERT it to a string in SQL before getting it into PHP. In PHP, you can use GMP to handle the number.

MySQL docs on converting: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/cast-functions.html#function_convert