Safely interpolate a variable-length list into a "WHERE col IN (...)" clause. Returns the SQL fragment plus the bound parameters — never concatenate user values into SQL.
Open a PDO connection with all the options you almost always want: real prepared statements, exceptions on error, associative-array fetch mode, UTF-8 charset.
Insert a list of rows in one round trip by building a multi-VALUES statement with placeholders. Orders-of-magnitude faster than looping single INSERTs.
Run a closure inside a transaction. Commits on success, rolls back on any exception, then re-throws so the caller can react. Avoids the bug-prone copy-paste of begin/commit/rollBack.