Okay, so instead of Doctrine, look at another library that has the basic parts and then the advanced parts. Here is one from a different library that is safe a

Okay, so instead of Doctrine, look at another library that has the basic parts and then the advanced parts. Here is one from a different library that is safe and "easy" $user = $db->find('user', 'first_name = ?', ['Name']); > As you can see PDO is optimized for doing things easily the unsafe way while Sequel has the safe way as the normal way of running queries which is just as easy to use as the unsafe way. PDO isn't "optimized" to do them the wrong way or the right way. Yes, it's less code to do it the wrong way, but that isn't a true definition of easier. As for the escaping, I would expect Twig to escape things, it's want it's meant for (and the reason you use it instead of just vanilla PHP). And Rails is a subset of Ruby correct? So not a true comparison again.