List of PHP native_type's for PDO getColumnMeta()
database, pdo, php
Solution
This is one of those areas of PDO that was left intentionally undefined, in order to keep the abstraction light weight.
PDO does not define a standard representation of types for this method; each driver has it's own idea about what it can return here.
Problem
I am using the PDO Database Abstraction library to make sure my code is portable. However, I now find that I need column information so I turned to the PDOStatement->getColumnMeta() method hoping it would be somewhat standardized - but from what I have found it actually seems open-ended. For example, when calling that method from SQLite it seems you get one set of possible values: http://gcov.php.net/PHP_5_3/lcov_html/pdo_sqlite/sqlite_statement.c.gcov.php ``` null double blob string integer ... ``` While a call from the MySQL database lists all kinds of other weird values: http://gcov.php.net/PHP_5_3/lcov_html/pdo_mysql/mysql_statement.c.gcov.php ``` var_string longlong newdecimal geometry ... ``` I may be looking in the wrong place also, but I just can't find any useful data on what "native_type" values can be when it comes to switching around databases.