# MyDBI subclasses DBI to make execute more friendly
# to users who have to pass strange options to bind_param
use strict;
package MyDBI;
  use DBI;
  use vars qw(@ISA);
  @ISA = qw(DBI);
package MyDBI::db;
  use vars qw(@ISA);
  @ISA = qw(DBI::db);
package MyDBI::st;
  use vars qw(@ISA);
  @ISA = qw(DBI::st);

  sub execute {
    my ($sth, @args) = @_;
    my $paramspot = 1;
    while(@args) {
      my $p = shift @args;
      my $n = (@args)?$args[0]:'';
      if (ref($p) eq 'ARRAY') {
        $sth->bind_param($paramspot++, @$p) or return;
      } elsif (!ref($p) and ref($n) eq 'HASH') {
        shift @args;
        $sth->bind_param($paramspot++, $p, $n) or return;
      } else {
        $sth->bind_param($paramspot++, $p) or return;
      }
    }
    $sth->SUPER::execute();
  }