laravel eloquent integers returned as strings in mssql

Question

i am running mssql2008 with laravel 5.0 and every time i retrieve data from DB seems like everything is been returned as string no matter which format i have it stored on the da

Answer 1

I use MySQL and also found same problem in some cases. Don't use mutator, use attribute casting instead.

protected $casts = [
    'id' => 'integer',
    'owner_id' => 'integer',
    'is_local' => 'integer',
    'vessel_type_id' => 'integer',
    'registration_number' => 'integer',
    'gross_register_tonnage' => 'integer',
    'year_built' => 'integer',
];