We are trying to understand the best way to use mysqli/other classes in multiple custom classes so that we don't instantiate a new object every time.
Is the code below the best/correct way of doing this?
The functions are only examples.
Thank you :)
<?php class Base { public function __get($name) { if($name == 'db'){ $db = new mysqli('**', '*s', '*', '*'); $this->db = $db; return $db; } if($name == 'blowfish'){ $blowfish = new PasswordHash(8, true); $this->blowfish = $blowfish; return $blowfish; } } } class A extends Base { public function validate($username, $password) { $query = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM users"); return $query->num_rows; } public function password($password) { return $this->blowfish->HashPassword($password); } } class PasswordHash { public function __construct($iteration_count_log2, $portable_hashes) { } public function HashPassword($password) { return $password; } } $a = new A; echo $a->validate('test','test'); // returns number rows count as expected echo $a->password('password123'); // returns password123 as expected ?> 
