Question

I am a php noob. I am trying to make a database connection file into a class (does it need to be private, static or something?). Netbeans is now throwing up errors and I get 500 internal server error when I try and run it from a browser. I think I have missed something simple ! Thanks

<?php
class config{

//define server, username, password and database
var $db_host="domain.co.uk.mysql"; 
var $db_user="user";                 
var $db_password="password";    
var $db_name="dbname"; 
var $db_tableprefix="tableprefix"; 
//connect to MySQL server
mysql_connect($db_host,$db_user,$db_password);

//select the database
@mysql_select_db($db_name) or die ("Unable to select database: " . mysql_error());

}
?>

Answer 1

None of your statements are in methods. And you have not instantiated the class and called on a method that would perform your statements.

Classes are for object oriented programming. Your class has just old regular procedural code in a class which will not work.

<?php
    class config{

        //define server, username, password and database
        var $db_host="domain.co.uk.mysql"; 
        var $db_user="user";                 
        var $db_password="password";    
        var $db_name="dbname"; 
        var $db_tableprefix="tableprefix"; 

        public function connect() {
            //connect to MySQL server        
            mysql_connect($db_host,$db_user,$db_password);

            //select the database
            @mysql_select_db($db_name) or die ("Unable to select database: " . mysql_error());
        }

    }

    $var = new config();
    $var->connect();

?>