Hello,

I'm working through the design phase of my first foray into an object-oriented web app. One of the things I'm having trouble understanding is how to share an open DBI connection with all my objects. If I change my DBD I don't want to have to update all my object modules. Is this even correct - should all my objects share one connection, or should they each open their own? Do they have to all be in the same class to pull this off, or is there another way?

Some pseudo-code to roughly approximate what I'm thinking:
package My;
# do the DBI connection in here. Set My->dbh to be a ref to the DBI ha
+ndle?

package My::Collection;
# check My->dbh to see if we're connected
# accesses the collections table through My->dbh

package My::Collection::Asset;
# check My->dbh to see if we're connected
# accesses the assets table through My->dbh

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Sorry, the OO thing is still very new to me - so I feel shaky on my design a bit. Is there a smarter way?

Thanks.

In reply to How to share DBI connections between objects? by blahblah

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