Over on the Fuzzy Blog, written by Scott Johnson (one of the presenters at PHPCon 2002, and considered an "official" in the world of blogging), there's a comment a little ways down the page that sings the praises of a bit of code over on phpPatterns.com.

So I surfed over to the location above, the Go link, and copied the code into VI. It just plain worked. And that's really the highest praise I can give -- when code just plain works, that's awesome.

The code he is talking about there is a data access object pattern that works by abstracting the data fetching operations in a way to make them more useful throughout the site. This layout is not for the faint of heart, however - and shouldn't be used as a "quick fix" if you're not really sure how to use it....