I'm freaking out here and can't figure out what's wrong. I'm pretty new to PDO, but everything works in my code except for booleans which are sent as strings.

My code (simplified):

$sql = 'SELECT * FROM pages WHERE clean_url_slo = :clean_url_slo AND published = :published LIMIT 1';

$clean_url_slo = 'home';
$published = true;

Then I prepare stuff and execute it like this (simplified):

$stmt = $db->prepare($sql);
$stmt->bindValue(':clean_url_slo',$clean_url_slo,PDO::PARAM_STR);
$stmt->bindValue(':published',$published,PDO::PARAM_BOOL);
$stmt->execute();

And then here is what comes to mysql (from the mysql log - the query mysql received):

91 Query    SELECT * FROM pages WHERE 1=1 AND clean_url_slo='domov' AND published='1' ORDER BY id desc LIMIT 1

As you can see, published is an integer - so always true, which is not OK. Why is that if I'm declaring it as a boolean?

using:

WAMP SERVER PHP version: 5.3.9 Mysql: 5.5.20

Many thanks for your help..