Reading boolean correctly from Postgres by PHP

Question

The main problem of this thread is moved to here about boolean datatype in PHP / Postgres.

The problem is the conversion of t and f to

Answer 1

I wrote a function in postgres to export boolean to PHP readable boolean:

You just use it this way:

SELECT php_bool(columna) from
table

Here is the function:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION php_bool(boolean)
RETURNS numeric LANGUAGE plpgsql

AS
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BEGIN

  IF $1 = true THEN
    RETURN 1;
  ELSE
    RETURN 0;
  END IF;
END
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