How is the Phalcon ORM support for JSON fields? How model properties map to JSON fields in the database? Are they simply treated as strings? I'm designing a database and have some JSON fields to simplify the design. Would I need to manually decode thoses JSON data fields? What about relationships? Anyone in a similar position? Ideas and examples are very welcomed. Thanks!
They are treated as strings, but you can use afterFetch and beforeSave to transform properly for usage in the PHP userland.