Creating a globally accessible MySQLi object

Question

I have multiple classes that use static methods. These functions connect to the database using

$mysqli = new mysqli(DB_SERVER, DB_USER, DB_P         


        

Answer 1

To elaborate on a mysqli singleton:

define('SERVER', 'localhost');
define('USERNAME', 'root');
define('PASSWORD', 'password');
define('DATABASE', 'databaseName');

class mysqliSingleton
{
    private static $instance;
    private $connection;

    private function __construct()
    {
        $this->connection = new mysqli(SERVER,USERNAME,PASSWORD,DATABASE);
    }

    public static function init()
    {
        if(is_null(self::$instance))
        {
            self::$instance = new mysqliSingleton();
        }

        return self::$instance;
    }


    public function __call($name, $args)
    {
        if(method_exists($this->connection, $name))
        {
             return call_user_func_array(array($this->connection, $name), $args);
        } else {
             trigger_error('Unknown Method ' . $name . '()', E_USER_WARNING);
             return false;
        }
    }
}

You can then request the database connection by calling:

$db = mysqliSingleton::init();

You can then retrieve the database connection in your own objects:

class yourClass
{
    protected $db;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->db = mysqliSingleton::init();
    }
}