<?php
/************************************
 * Asiel Brumfield
 * weber state cs4350
 * the class to handle db dbs for project5
 * NOTE DEPENDENCIES
 * 1. MDB2 PEAR package
 * 2. MDB2_Driver_mysql PEAR package
 *
 * Reference Documentation
 * http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.database.mdb2.php
 ************************************/

require_once 'MDB2.php';

class dbConnection
{
    private $dbName;
    private $user;
    private $host;
    private $dbtype = 'mysql';
    private $db;
    private $connected = false;
    
    function __construct($user, $pass, $host, $dbName)
    {        
        $this->user = $user;
        $this->pass = $pass;
        $this->host = $host;
        $this->dbName = $dbName;        
    }
    
    public function connect()
    {
        $dsn['username'] = $this->user;
        $dsn['password'] = $this->pass;
        $dsn['hostspec'] = $this->host;
        $dsn['phptype'] = $this->dbtype;
            
        $this->db =& MDB2::factory($dsn);
        # if the db wasn't successful say why
        if (PEAR::isError($this->db))
        {            
            die(__LINE__.$this->db->getMessage());
        }
        $this->db->setOption('result_buffering', true);
        $this->db->setFetchMode(MDB2_FETCHMODE_ASSOC);
        $this->db->loadModule('Extended');
        # switch to the appropriate db
        $this->db->setDatabase($this->dbName);
        # identify that we have a connection
        $this->connected = true;
        return $this->db;
    }
}

###############################################################################
# This is how we could do a simple connection
# in the older less portable fashion using mysql_connect
#    mysql_connect('localhost', '4350', 'wsuslcc');
#    mysql_select_db('project5');
#    $result = mysql_query('show tables');
#    for ($i=0; $i<mysql_num_rows($result); $i++)
#    {    
#        $array[] = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
#    }
#    print_r($array);
###############################################################################

?>