PHP and PDO class question

Question

I am very new to OOP styled PHP, and I am trying to implement PDO as well. I found this nice little class online which handles the database connection, however I have no ide

Answer 1

You should use Dependency Injection:

$steve = new Person($db_handle);

And yes, using the syntax you're hoping to avoid is the way to do it. You can always assign the class variable to a local method one by saying $dbh = $this->db_handle; which I believe is marginally faster.