Why does pdo driver return int as string?

Question

PHP

Problem: Using laravel, eloquent models return int fields as string.
Mysqlnd is installed, maybe you need to configure something at the pdo or eloquent level

PDO Driver for MySQL => enabled
Client API version => mysqlnd 5.0.12-dev - 20150407 - $Id: b396954eeb2d1d9ed7902b8bae237b287f21ad9e $

Answer 1

At the PDO level

'options'   => array(
            PDO::ATTR_STRINGIFY_FETCHES => false,
            PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES => false,