advanced patterns with PDO prepared statements in PHP 8.0 when using named parameters
I'm deploying to production and This might be a silly question, but I'm experiencing a strange scenario with PDO prepared statements in PHP 8.0. I expected that using named parameters would help improve the readability of my code, but I'm running into unexpected behavior when executing the prepared statement. Here's the relevant code snippet: ```php try { $pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=testdb', 'username', 'password'); $pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION); $stmt = $pdo->prepare('SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = :username AND status = :status'); $username = 'john_doe'; $status = 'active'; $stmt->execute([':username' => $username, ':status' => $status]); $result = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); print_r($result); } catch (PDOException $e) { echo 'Connection failed: ' . $e->getMessage(); } ``` Despite providing the parameters correctly, the query returns no results, and I want to figure out why it fails. When I run the same query directly in the database with the same values, it returns the expected row. I also tried using question mark placeholders instead, and the code worked perfectly, but I would prefer to use named parameters for clarity. Additionally, I tried enabling full behavior reporting with `error_reporting(E_ALL)` and `ini_set('display_errors', 1)`, but there are no errors being thrown. Could there be an scenario with how I'm binding the parameters or possibly something related to the character encoding in my database? Iām using PHP 8.0 with MySQL 8.0. Any advice on what could be going wrong would be greatly appreciated! I'm working on a API that needs to handle this. Am I missing something obvious? I'm open to any suggestions. I'm coming from a different tech stack and learning Php. What would be the recommended way to handle this? I've been using Php for about a year now. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Any ideas how to fix this?