How to avoid opening multiple connections to the DB with OOP PHP

Question

I\'ve been a procedural programmer for over 4 yrs and it\'s time to start looking into OOP. With that said, let\'s say I needed to call two methods in my class. Each method requ

Answer 1

You should look into a manager class for your db connections. Then you can have one central place where you request connections from. If there is already an open connection the manager can return that instead of returning a new connection.

This would be one approach. There are tons of examples out there about how to implement something like this. There already some for mysql and mssql. But you could surely extend for your db.