Avoid conflict between column names ?

Best practice for me has always been to load each record as a model. Then name your columns whatever you want, the database logic will be tied to the model and you would just use $my_model->full_name which could be something like.... (you'll have to setup an autoloader or 2 to use this method...)

That actually is a really interesting idea. I will have a closer look at it on the next build I do, thankyou.

Paul