The new PodsData class that has been tied to PodsUI has morphed into a general-purpose DB Abstraction layer. Here are some functions I’m working on for it:

• query (pods_query mapped to this)
• insert
• update
• delete
• reorder
• select
• build (handles sql building for search, pagination, and sorting)
• table_create
• table_alter
• table_truncate
• table_drop

The Pods() and PodsAPI() classes will implement PodsData for their DB needs versus straight queries. There are some exceptions for simple SELECTs (using pods_query which is really mapped to PodsData::query), but in the case of changing data or doing table queries – those will be handled by PodsData.