Return values from database in original datatypes (Kohana ORM)

Question

I have a column in database table active which should return whether user has confirmed mail or not. It is tinyint(1) and if it is set 0 and I test it strictly against FALSE operator doesn't return TRUE. I use ORM to communicate with database.

This is set in MySQL database:
active tinyint(1) Yes 0

if ($user->active === FALSE) // returns FALSE
if ($user->active === '0') // returns TRUE

I've been searching in API for solution and in Database class there was already tinyint datatype.

Do I have to use == instead of === or there is something else I could do?

Answer 1

To keep things consistent, casting db data to PHP equivalents was removed since 3.0, meaning you're right - no strict comparison :)

What you can do if you really want it is overwrite ORM::_load_values() combined with ORM::list_columns() to cast to 'right' data types (that is - if you're staying with the MySQL driver because moving to PDO will break things).