Description: ------------ If you call autoExecute() and in WHERE present any of '!?&' query simple fails. Does not matter where these symbols appear - inside string literal or in query (for example 'a != b'). This happens because inside autoExecute() where used for catch placeholders. For example you send to autoExecute() array with $data of 3 items and $where with 'a != b'. On autoPrepare() inside autoExecute() will be collected FOUR placeholders. 3 from $data and '!' inside $where as 4 placeholder. After that will be called execute() with $data array. But it have only 3 values. It cause error because parsed statement required 4 values for 4 placeholders. Solution: make replace in $where before send it to autoPrepare() inside autoExecute(): if ($where) { $where = strtr($where, array('?' => '\?', '!' => '\!', '&' => '\&',)); } Test script: --------------- $data = array('a' => 'a', 'b' => 'b', 'c' => 'c'); $ret = $db->autoExecute('table', $data, DB_AUTOQUERY_UPDATE, 'a != b'); var_dump($ret); Expected result: ---------------- DB_OK Actual result: -------------- DB_ERROR: DB_ERROR_MISMATCH raised from executeEmulateQuery()