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Best PHP way to connect to a DB across multiple pages ? [message #169477]

Tue, 14 September 2010 22:28

goldtech
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Hi,

I have a basic PHP and MYSQL connection question/reality check.

Let's say I have two pages which rely on getting content from the same
DB. The first page shows all the records from the DB in a brief
tabular format. If the user sees something they are interested in they
click a link in a displayed brief record and go to the second page
which displays a detailed view of the item they clicked on with a
bigger picture and more info.

This is standard, tons of web pages have this format. Both pages pull
info from the same DB using PHP. Let's say I post the primary key of
the item from the brief page and send that key to the detail page. The
detail page uses the key to access the DB again and get more detailed
content for that record.

On both pages I access the DB with:
....
$dbc=@mysqli_connect (...... );
$q = "SELECT.... FROM data";
$r = @mysqli_query($dbc, $q);
....

So I'm make a connection twice, once per each page that uses data from
the DB. Always done it this way. Question: Is this a correct way to
do this?

Thanks,

Lee G.

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		Best PHP way to connect to a DB across multiple pages ? By: goldtech on Tue, 14 September 2010 22:28
		Re: Best PHP way to connect to a DB across multiple pages ? By: Hamish Campbell on Tue, 14 September 2010 23:48
		Re: Best PHP way to connect to a DB across multiple pages ? By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 14 September 2010 23:56
		Re: Best PHP way to connect to a DB across multiple pages ? By: Beauregard T. Shagnas on Wed, 15 September 2010 01:44
		Re: Best PHP way to connect to a DB across multiple pages ? By: Gordon[1] on Wed, 15 September 2010 09:21
		Re: Best PHP way to connect to a DB across multiple pages ? By: goldtech on Thu, 16 September 2010 17:58
		Re: Best PHP way to connect to a DB across multiple pages ? By: goldtech on Thu, 16 September 2010 17:59

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