How to use PDO connection in other classes?

Question

I think I\'ve a problem in understanding how OOP works. I already changed the code that it works, but it isn\'t the propper way I think. Following scenario (No, I\'m not cre

Answer 1

• your current class is rather useless. It would make sense to create a database wrapper if it adds some extra functionality to PDO. But given its current code, better to use vanilla PDO instead.
• Either way, create a single $db instance from either vanilla PDO or your database class.
• pass it as a constructor parameter into every class that needs a database connection

database.php:

<?php
$host = '127.0.0.1';
$db   = 'test';
$user = 'root';
$pass = '';
$charset = 'utf8';

$dsn = "mysql:host=$host;dbname=$db;charset=$charset";
$opt = [
    \PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE            => \PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION,
    \PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => \PDO::FETCH_ASSOC,
    \PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES   => false,
];
$pdo = new \PDO($dsn, $user, $pass, $opt);

user.php

<?php
class User {
    /* Properties */
    private $conn;

    /* Get database access */
    public function __construct(\PDO $pdo) {
        $this->conn = $pdo;
    }

    /* List all users */
    public function getUsers() {
        return $this->conn->query("SELECT username, usermail FROM user")->fetchAll();
    }
}

app.php

include 'database.php';
$user = new User($pdo);
$list = $user->getUsers();

foreach($list as $test) {
    echo $test["username"],"\n";
}

output:

username_foo
username_bar
username_baz

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