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Hi Phreaks, I hope you've all made it through the weekend with sound body and mind. The following 2 methods have been working together harmoniously for quite a while: <?php public function action($action, $table, $where = [], $rule = "") { if(count($where) === 3) { $operators = array('=', '<', '>', '<=', '<='); $field = $where[0]; $operator = $where[1]; $value = $where[2]; if(in_array($operator, $operators)) { if($rule == "") { $sql = "{$action} FROM {$table} WHERE {$field} {$operator} ?"; } else { $sql = "{$action} FROM {$table} WHERE {$field} {$operator} ? {$rule}"; } if(!$this->query($sql, array($value))->error()) { return $this; } } return false; } public function get($table, $where = [], $rule = "", $column = "*") { return $this->action("SELECT {$column}", $table, $where, $rule); } My original belief was that it was easily extensible. I'm now to the point I'm trying to do that and receiving behaviour that I don't understand. If the action() method becomes thus -> <?php public function action($action, $table, $where = [], $rule = "") { if(count($where) === 3) { $operators = array('=', '<', '>', '<=', '<='); $field = $where[0]; $operator = $where[1]; $value = $where[2]; if(in_array($operator, $operators)) { if($rule == "") { $sql = "{$action} FROM {$table} WHERE {$field} {$operator} ?"; } else { $sql = "{$action} FROM {$table} WHERE {$field} {$operator} ? {$rule}"; } if(!$this->query($sql, array($value))->error()) { return $this; } } } else { $sql = "{$action} FROM {$table}"; echo "this <br>"; return $this; } echo "false <br>"; return false; } with the added else{} statement to handle queries without WHERE conditions, and call it with just the $table parameter -> <?php public function get() { // $table = "posts"; $table = "categories"; $field = "*"; $query = $this->_db->get($table); // print_r($query); var_dump($query); } //normally, using conditions, it would look like this: $query = $this->_db->get($table, array($field, "=", $value); It returns: which we can see is picking up my else{} statement as it should but is returning this empty object. Could someone explain this to me? thank you