Is there a better, more “Standard” way to perform SQL queries in PHP without using a framework?

Question

For the longest time, I\'ve been using the following basic formatting for SQL queries within my PHP:

$sql = \"SELECT * FROM `user-data` WHERE `id` = \'\".$id.\"\         


        

Answer 1

There is MDB_QueryTool I never tried.

IMHO Zend_DB is really cool, the zend framework allow you to use only the part you are interested in so you might want to take it a look event if you don't want the full framework.

what I like in Zend_DB is the table select syntax

$userRowset = $user->fetchAll( $user->select()
 ->where('name LIKE ?', $name . '%')
 ->order('id ASC')
 ->limit(10) 
);

You can easily see all the criterias and table involved so I find better then doing plain SQL. Just one warning Zend_DB doesn't handle all the SQL, so time to time you would have to write plain SQL but that's really rare.