/**
* Called by the constructor
*/
protected function prepare()
{
// since PDO can emulate prepared statement, prepare() do not always
// communicate with the database, and therefore do not trigger automatic
// reconnection. Instead we manually check if the connection is alive.
if (!$this->dbh->ping()) {
$this->dbh->autoreconnect();
}
$this->pdo_statement = $this->dbh->__call('prepare', array($this->statement, $this->driver_options));
}
