I'm having troubles with the mysqli driver used by wordpress, where it is converting each and every integer value to a string within `$wpdb->get_results("SELECT...")`.  

I know that it is possible so use the the option MYSQLI\_OPT\_INT\_AND\_FLOAT\_NATIVE with the mysqli driver (`$mysqli->options(MYSQLI_OPT_INT_AND_FLOAT_NATIVE, 1);`) but I don't seem to find a way to set this option in wordpress.  

How do I do that?  

Thank you

**EDIT**

Based on the comments below, I'b better further explain what I'm trying to achieve.  

I'm developing a plugin to add reactive/responsive functionalities to wordpress both in the backend and in the frontend (exactly like Gutenberg). 
In my plugin I need to access a variety of structures in the database, and I'm doing that using using AJAX along with VueJS which makes extensive use of observables.  

Let's say, for example that I have a structure like this in the database:

```
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `a_table` (
    `id` INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
    `name` VARCHAR(190) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'New name',
    `anInteger` INT NOT NULL DEFAULT '123',
    `aBoolean` BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT TRUE
    PRIMARY KEY (`id`), UNIQUE KEY `name` (`name`));"

```

and that I'm accessing the table via AJAX to bind the data to something like this in Vue:

```
<template>
  <el-form
    :model="aTable"
    ref="tableForm">
    <el-row>
      <el-col :span="4">
        <el-form-item
          label="Name"
          prop="name">
          <el-input
            v-model="aTable.name">
          </el-input>
        </el-form-item>
      </el-col>
      <el-col :span="2">
        <el-form-item label="BoolVal" prop="aBoolean">
          <el-switch v-model="aTable.aBoolean"></el-switch>
        </el-form-item>
      </el-col>
      <el-col :span="8">
        <el-form-item label="NumberVal" prop="anInteger">
          <el-input-number v-model="aTable.anInteger"></el-input-number>
        </el-form-item>
      </el-col>
    </el-row>
  </el-form>
</template>

<script>
export default {
  props: {
    aTable: {
      type: Object,
      default: function() {
        return {};
      }
    }
  },
  data() {
    return {
    };
  },
  methods: {
  }
};
</script>

//AJAX and other glue code omitted

```

With this set up, the input filed "name" is correctly bound and displays the string "new name", while the boolean switch shows always false (VueJS is expecting a boolean or, at least, an integer, and is getting a string instead!).
This forces me to manipulate the results I get from $wpdb before returning the dataset to the AJAX caller if I want VueJS understand correctly what I retrieve from the database, like this:

```
static function ajax_get_table()
{
    global $wpdb;
    $response = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM `a_table` WHERE 1=1 ORDER BY `id`");

    // MYSQLI_OPT_INT_AND_FLOAT_NATIVE Hack
    // mysql is returning each and every integer/boolean as a string
    // This hack is needed to retrieve correct data type
    array_walk($response, function(&$item, $key) {
        array_walk($item, function(&$subitem, $subkey) {
            // Integers
            if (in_array($subkey, ['id', 'anInteger'])) $subitem = intval($subitem);
            // Boolenas
            if (in_array($subkey, ['aBoolean'])) $subitem = boolval($subitem);
        });
    });

    // AJAX termination
    wp_send_json($response);
    die();
}

```

But this means that I have to know in advance each end every data type returned from the MYSQL query, which is by far an anti-pattern programming technique. 

That's why I'm wondering why is Wordpress stuck to this pre-PHP-5.3 limitation.