Cakephp 3 gt, lt, gte and lte issue - cakephp

Question

I got a problem with condition in CakePHP 3. I'm trying to deal with deep associated models and build big queries for search engine.
here the query debbuged:
SELECT
Ouvrages.zone_id AS `Ouvrages__zone_id`,
Ouvrages.parent_id AS `Ouvrages__parent_id`,
Ouvrages.classe_ouvrage_id AS `Ouvrages__classe_ouvrage_id`,
Ouvrages.numero AS `Ouvrages__numero`,
Valeurs.valeur AS `Valeurs__valeur`
FROM
ouvrages Ouvrages
INNER JOIN
elements Elements
ON Ouvrages.id = (
Elements.ouvrage_id
)
INNER JOIN
valeurs Valeurs
ON Elements.id = (
Valeurs.element_id
)
INNER JOIN
caracteristiques Caracteristiques
ON Caracteristiques.id = (
Valeurs.caracteristique_id
)
WHERE
(
Ouvrages.zone_id in (
:c0,:c1,:c2,:c3,:c4,:c5,:c6,:c7,:c8,:c9,:c10,:c11
)
AND Ouvrages.classe_ouvrage_id = :c12
AND Elements.classe_element_id = :c13
AND Valeurs.caracteristique_id = :c14
AND valeur > :c15
)
GROUP BY
Valeurs.id
if i'm testing it in mysql console it works fine.
but cakephp's ORM doesn't give me the same result. With function gt lt gte or lte it doesn't work.
i used $this->log($query, 'debug') and configure my app config with new query log file but i got the same result if i have used debug:
SELECT
Ouvrages.zone_id AS `Ouvrages__zone_id`,
Ouvrages.parent_id AS `Ouvrages__parent_id`,
Ouvrages.classe_ouvrage_id AS `Ouvrages__classe_ouvrage_id`,
Ouvrages.numero AS `Ouvrages__numero`,
Valeurs.valeur AS `Valeurs__valeur`
FROM
ouvrages Ouvrages
INNER JOIN
elements Elements
ON Ouvrages.id = (
Elements.ouvrage_id
)
INNER JOIN
valeurs Valeurs
ON Elements.id = (
Valeurs.element_id
)
INNER JOIN
caracteristiques Caracteristiques
ON Caracteristiques.id = (
Valeurs.caracteristique_id
)
WHERE (
Ouvrages.zone_id in (
:c0,:c1,:c2,:c3
)
AND Ouvrages.classe_ouvrage_id = :c4
AND Elements.classe_element_id = :c5
AND Valeurs.caracteristique_id = :c6
AND valeur >= :c7)
GROUP BY
Valeurs.id
Thanks to ndm for explanation to debug sql query in AJAX. I configured my connection with log at true and i got this kind of result:
WHERE (
Ouvrages.zone_id in (
34,35,44,46
)
AND Ouvrages.classe_ouvrage_id = '60'
AND Elements.classe_element_id = '62'
AND Valeurs.caracteristique_id = '25'
AND valeur >= '5')
I'm trying to cast those numbers, but i didn't found how yet. A simply (int) doesn't work.

Answer 1

I understood my mistake. Actually we build a weird Valeurs table with a column value which is associated to a caracteristic. This value column is defined as varchar(255) but can contain Numeric, String or Date. We know the type of the current value coz we also have a type column.
But CakePHP ORM cast automatically every data to string because of the varchar definition. We must cast our datas ourself:
function ($exp) use ($data) {
return $exp->{$data['operand']}('valeur', $data['valeur'], 'integer');
};