String instead of Double type on CakePhp !

Question

Hii, i tried to create a column named X taking DOUBLE as a type in a table named Customer with cakephp's console, but when I migrate the CreateCustomers, it declare X as 'string'. Why ?!

Answer 1

there is no DOUBLE type when you're creating a table using the cakephp console. instead we use the 'float' data type