PDO Global Instance New PDO , its possible?

Question

I am using PHP PDO to connect to my database and run some querys to then use the query return on some forms.

That is, I have a select where it is populated by the va

Answer 1

You could "share" the same database connection object (PDO) very simple in plain old procedural style :-) Here is a simple example:

// config.php
define('DB_DSN', 'mysql:host=127.0.0.1;dbname=test;charset=utf8');
define('DB_USERNAME', 'root');
define('DB_PASSWORD', '');

// database.php
function db()
{
    static $db = null;
    if ($db === null) {
        $db = new PDO(DB_DSN, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD, array(
            PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION,
            PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => false,
            PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => PDO::FETCH_ASSOC,
            PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci"
        ));
    }
    return $db;
}

Usage

function test1()
{       
    $pdo = db();
    $stmt = $pdo->prepare("SELECT * FROM league");
    $stmt->execute();
    $result = $stmt->fetchAll();
    return $result;     
}

If you prefer a more professional solution then take a look an PHP-DI and use dependency injection.