Question

I’m having trouble setting up PDO in my website framework.

I open my connection in “system.php” which is included at the beginning of every page with this code here

try {   
 $DBH = new PDO("mysql:host=$host;dbname=$dbname", $user, $pass, 
        array( PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => true));  
}  
catch(PDOException $e) {  
    echo $e->getMessage();  
} 

and on the same file (system.ph) I call this below it:

$STH = $DBH->query('SELECT value FROM settings WHERE type="theme"');  
 $STH->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);  
 while($row = $STH->fetch()) {  
  define('THEME', 'themes/'.$row['value'].'/'); 
 }  

Which works perfectly!

However, when I call the same query as above on "default.php" (which is included in the file) it comes back with:

    Notice: Undefined variable: DBH in /pages/default.php on line 15

    Fatal error: Call to a member function query() on a non-object
 in /pages/default.php on line 15

What am I doing wrong here?

default.php

<?php 
$STH = $DBH->query('SELECT value FROM settings WHERE type="theme"'); 
$STH->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); 
while($row = $STH->fetch()) { echo $row['value']; } 
?>

Answer 1

If it is inside a function add

  global $DBH; 

in the function before calling the query() function.