you can now use $so_sql_obj->my_col = 15 instead of $so_sql_obj->data['my_col']=15; (be aware, that does NOT work with var-parameters of functions and probably references)
$so_sql_obj->id alwas references the auto-id, independent of it's name (id is a bad choice of a column-name, because it's a reserved word in some dbms)"