When creating a PHP Application I always recommend using Object Oriented Programming (OOP) as this makes the working very simple. No long and redundant codes, simple to use, custom methods are some of the delicacies that OOP provides.

I have created a simple PHP class for you all to use in your database driven applications. The class contains methods to connect a database, query a database, fetch the query output in form of both associative and numerically indexed array. have a look..

class db {

var $connection;
var $database;
var $rows = array();
var $count;
var $result;

/* Create a database connection */
function connect ($dbuser,$dbpass,$dbhost,$dbname) {
  $this->connection = mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass);
  $this->database = mysql_select_db($dbname);
}

/* Query a MySQL Database */
function query ($query) {
  $this->result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
  return $this->result;
}

/* Query a MySQL Dabase
Returns Both arrays Assoc & Indexed */
function getrows ($query) {
  $this->result = mysql_query($query);
  while($r = mysql_fetch_array($this->result,MYSQL_BOTH))
    $this->rows[] = $r;
    mysql_free_result($this->result);
    return $this->rows;
}

/* Count Number of rows query */
function count ($query) {
  $this->result = mysql_query($query);
  $this->count = mysql_num_rows($this->result);
  return $this->count;
}

/* Create a Safe Query */
function escapedata($data) {
    return mysql_real_escape_string($data);
}

/* Close connection */
function __destruct(){ @mysql_close($this->connection); }

}

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