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    <p>Because I find PDO executions extremely hard to remember and find myself looking back at previous projects or other websites just to remember how to select rows from a database, I decided that I would try and create my own functions that contain the PDO executions and just plug in the data I need. It seemed a lot simpler than it actually is though...</p> <p>So far I have already created a connect function successfully, but now when it comes to create a select function I'm stumped for multiple reasons.<br> For starters there could be a variating amount of args that can be passed into the function and secondly I can't figure out what I should pass to the function and in which order.</p> <p>So far the function looks like this. <em>To keep me sane, I've added the "id" part to it so I can see what exactly I need to accomplish in the final outcome, and will be replaced by variables accordingly when I work out how to do it.</em></p> <pre><code>function sql_select($conn, **what to put here**) { try { $stmt = $conn-&gt;prepare('SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE id = :id'); $stmt-&gt;execute(array('id' =&gt; $id)); $result = $stmt-&gt;fetchAll(); if ( count($result) ) { foreach($result as $row) { print_r($row); } } else { return "No rows returned."; } } catch(PDOException $e) { echo 'ERROR: ' . $e-&gt;getMessage(); } } </code></pre> <p>So far what I've established that the function will need to do is</p> <ul> <li>Connect to the database (using another function to generate the $conn variable, already done)</li> <li>Select the table</li> <li>Specify the column</li> <li>Supply the input to match</li> <li>Allow for possible args such as <code>ORDER by 'id' DESC</code></li> </ul> <p>Lastly from this I would need to create a function to <b><i>insert, update</b></i> and <b><i>delete</i></b> rows from the database.</p> <p>Or, is there a better way to do this rather than functions?</p> <p>If anyone could help me accomplish my ambitions to simply simplify PDO executions it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!</p>
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    1. COIf you're having trouble using PDO itself, what makes you think that wrapping PDO in other methods/functions would make it any easier? "I can't open this christmas present. I know! I'll wrap it in MORE stuff to make it easier to open!"
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    2. COIt's not that I have trouble using PDO, it's just hard to remember if you compare it to the [http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.mysql.php](depreciated original mysql api) which is where I've moved from over 6 months ago. All I'm trying to accomplish is essentially taking 10~ lines of code which into less so inserting or updating a row in a database is as quick and as easy to remember as it was with the old mysql api.
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    3. CO@SteppingHat - if you've got six months of development in PDO it's possibly a little late, but have you thought using mysqli instead? The functionality in procedural style is very similar to mysql, meaning there's less of a learning curve, but you can still write more secure code.
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