Clarification on PDO and bindparam
<p>I'm a newcomer to PDO and have to say that I like it so far but I am still a bit unstable on some of the calls that it uses and the documentation is not all that solid.</p>

<p>I am using a couple stored procedures and from what I understand about PDO, I am forced to use prepare for this. I building a module that will store info about any errors that were caused by the user. I understand that bindParam will escape any quotes and clean the string before it's inserted into the database which is NOT what I want. I want to see the string as the user entered it for troubleshooting purposes. I have tried to forgo the bindparam calls but get errors about attempting to pass by reference. Is there a way that I can achieve this? Also open to suggestions. Thanks.</p>
