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A few years ago, while PHP 5 was still in a state of flux, a change was made to the way that PDO handles parameters bound to prepared statements. Somewhere between versions 5.2.0 and 5.2.1 a change was made that … Continue reading →

After previously explaining how to harden PDO I’m going to expand on the basic class I developed with the help of some design patterns. A large part of using design patterns lies in recognising the situations in which each one … Continue reading →

If your application does not catch the exception thrown from the PDO constructor, the default action taken by the zend engine is to terminate the script and display a back trace. This back trace will likely reveal the full database … Continue reading →