Getting DB data as correct PHP types directly

Hi. Is it possible to get data from database as correct PHP types directly without retyping them?

For example:
TINYINT, INT, BIGINT as integer
FLOAT, DOUBLE, DECIMAL as float
CHAR, VARCHAR, TEXT as string

I do not care about dates as date type. Now everything, except of null, are strings. I am using MySQL database.

Set numberNative to true:
https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgni...se.php#L45
See numberNative in https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/datab...-of-values

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Thank you. It was helpful.