… acknowledged and assigned. To summarize, if you need to unpack an unsigned 32bit int from binary stream, you have to: convert it to float or string manually, do that depending on int size… there’s no native 64-bit integer type in PHP. Let me remind that built-in “int” might be 64-bit, but then again…
Post: PHP vs. BIGINT vs. float conversion caveat
January 10, 2008 By 27 Comments
… handling large numbers stored as float (especially on 32-bit systems where 32-bit int overflow will implicitly convert to float) and getting strange bugs…) helped in all cases. However at the moment the option is neither mentioned in the online documentation, nor explained clearly in php.ini. So…
Post: Handling big result sets
June 26, 2006 By 13 Comments
… than handle the result in loop mysql_fetch_array (here I use PHP functions but they…varchar(39) default NULL, `f11` int(11) default NULL, `f12` float default NULL, `f13` int(11) default NULL, `f14` … used server needs to convert millions of values from int to the string and client has to do reverse …
