Many times, when taking a short peek through new extensions in the TER, I find plenty of extensions that use PHP's native MySQL functions to access the database. In my previous post I already described why this something wrong, and why you should avoid it. In this article I will show you how it should be done, and how you can write less and cleaner code by doing so.

Imagine all the time you will put into trying to reverse engineer what the DBAL wrapper function you use is trying to generate, when we could just print ANY query that was generated with ANY one of the DBAL wrappers!