Very nice, but it seems that nowadays, for complex projects, your best bet is a reputable MVC framework which ships with its own DBAL. Also, I think there's an error in a couple of code examples. Where you say: $result = $dbh->query("select * from employee"); while ($row = $result->fetchRow()) { echo $result['lastname']; } I think you mean $row['lastname'], not $result['lastname'] »