(Side-note: Blocking ! in question titles doesn't stop smart-arses like me putting U+203C Double Exclamation Mark instead :p)
After a quick round of debugging, I found this:
$query = <<<END
SELECT
`column1`, `column2`,
SOME_FUNCTION(`column3`) -- process in PHP instead?
FROM `tablename`
WHERE `condition` BETWEEN ? AND ?
END;
$stmt = $pdo->prepare($query);
$stmt->execute(array(1,10));
And got this:
Uncaught Exception » RuntimeException » PDOException:
SQLSTATE[HY093]: Invalid parameter number: number of bound variables does not match number of tokens
Do you see the problem?
The question mark in the comment
-- process in PHP instead?
is interpreted as a token to bind a parameter to! PDO then expects three parameters instead of the two that were passed.
Now, obviously the simple solution was to just rewrite the comment, but this feels like I'm avoiding what may be a bigger issue.
Is there perhaps something wrong with PDO, or is there an option I can set to have it understand MySQL comments?