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Subject: Re: Allow PDO::query() to return a subclass of PDOStatement
From: nick.telford@ntlworld.com (Nicholas Telford)

Lukas Smith wrote:

> Nicholas Telford wrote:
>
>> What I'm proposing is to allow PDO::query() to return a subclass of 
>> PDOStatement. This would allow abstractions to tailor the result set 
>> to their own needs while not (in theory) being too complicated to 
>> implement.
>>
>> My initial idea involves passing an object that is a subclass of 
>> PDOStatement into PDO:query as a second parameter, then all that 
>> would be needed to get it to return a custom result set would be 
>> something like this:
>
>
> http://oss.backendmedia.com/index.php?area=PDO&page=FAQ
>
> read the last item over there.
>
> Marcus (IIRC) is planning on making this less clumsy as right now you 
> have to repeatedly specifiy the statement class you want AFAIK.
>
> regards,
> Lukas
>
>
Ah thank you, I understand that PDO is still under development, I 
thought I may as well mention this before the cement dries so to speak.

Good to see that this has already been thought of and an implementation 
already exists (even if it's not ideal).