I've been evaluating the possibility of modifying an existing web app
with Oracle backend to use the OCI8 functions rather than ODBC. I was
attracted by some specific functionalities (specifying the DB charset on
connect, LOB handling...) and I also wanted to test whether there was
any performance improvement.
I've soon noticed that the OCI API returns numeric values as
locale-formatted strings; e.g., 3.14 becomes "3,14". According to docs
it's intentional.
My app depends on receiving decimal numbers as PHP floats because it has
to do maths with them and even when writing to page they need to be
properly formatted (I want "1.234,57", not "1234,567"). It seems that I
need to build my own abstraction layer and:
1. On every session, change the decimal separator to dot.
2. On every query, find out which fields are numeric.
3. On every row, cast numeric values to float.
This approach seems worse that using good old ODBC. My question is: Is
it possible to override this OCI "feature" and just get numbers as numbers?
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