Parameters

You can use parameters as placeholders for values to be supplied at execution time. A parameter can be used like any other expression. You can use parameters with like so:

$parameter = Query::parameter("foobar");
// Equivalently
$parameter = parameter("foobar");

Automatic name generation

If you do not want to think about what name to give to your parameters, you may omit the name and let the package generate a name for you:

$parameter = parameter();

You can retrieve the name again using the getParameter method:

$parameter = parameter();
$generatedName = $parameter->getParameter();