The SitePoint PHP blog recently posted a new tutorial helping you get up and running with FluentPDO, a small PHP library that makes building queries easier and faster. In the tutorial Francesco Malatesta introduces you to the tool and creates a test project to show it in use.

You know the story: writing SQL queries is so boring. Especially when you don’t have time to do it. If you feel like me, today we are going to see something really cool: Fluent PDO. [...] The result? No more SQL queries. Maybe this is not the first one you have seen: there are many similar projects out there and every single one has its key features. Fluent’s key feature is a great JOIN Query Builder.

His test project links a "wishlist" listing with a users table based on a "user_id" field. He includes the SQL to create the two tables and helps you get the library installed (via Composer). He shows some basic select operations using the fluent interface including where clauses, order by and group by handling. He also covers some basic examples of the other CRUD operations (create, read, update, delete) before getting into one of the more advanced features: the join query builder. Finally, he wraps up the post with a brief look at the query debugger, making it a bit simpler to tell where the failures might lie.