Debugging PDO Prepared Statements

Something that has always bugged me about using prepared statements, is that you can really only get the query sent to the database by catching it in the logs.

Today, a friend asking me if it was possible to get a prepared statement back from PDO with the values placeholders replaced, finally caught me in a moment where I could do something about it.

I wrote a thin PDO wrapper class that will [imperfectly, I’m sure] return the completed query.

It supports bound parameters, values and the array key->value methods of passing in values to prepared queries. You can see the code and examples below:

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This results in the following output:

[gist id=”08672aac2c6baf224130″ file=”2-debugging-pdo-prepared-statements-output.sql” highlight=”2,6,10,43,95-100″]

Hopefully, this will help you get a somewhat better idea of what’s going on :)