all those functions expect to bind a <parameter name> to a statement. this <parameter name> should work both with or without a leading colon.
by the way (just checked) - this is how the "native" oracle-oci binding functions work. so oracle decided to make the colon in front of the placeholder for bind optional. at the end of the day you can only bind to a placeholder defined in your sql-statement. in the sql you have to "mark" the placeholder by prepending a colon - but for the bind you really don't need the colon. really!
so - again - lets make the colon *optional* - everywhere we allow binding in PDO!
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me too. Actually, (pardon my ignorance) I was surprised to find that binding with name only isn't the standard method.
Andi
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