Is is possible to set a default PDO fetch mode?

Question

Before I retrieve data I always have to type:

$STH->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);

In the interest of making my code more readable it wou

Answer 1

$connection = new PDO($connection_string);
$connection->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE, PDO::FETCH_OBJ);