Question: I'm facing a problem which I don't know how to solve. Let's start explaining:

I've got the following class:

```
class MyClass{

    function MyClass($mysql_dbcon){
        $this->mysql_dbcon = $mysql_dbcon;
    }

    function execute(){
        include("myscript.php");
    }

}

```

**myscript.php** is an HTML template which uses Ajax to comunicate with **other PHP scripts**. Since these other PHP scripts aren't included directly in the class I'm not able to get the variable `mysql_dbcon` and use a different connection for each instance. Let's guess I've got the following instances:

```
$i1 = new Myclass($dbcon1);
$i1->execute();

$i2 = new Myclass($dbcon2);
$i2->execute();

```

Both instances will execute an Ajax function which call other processing scripts but these scripts can't access the instance's mysql\_dbcon variable due to they're independent script executions.

How can I solve this? Is it correct to store the MySQL connection in `$_SESSION` so all the scripts can access it? Maybe this:

```
$_SESSION['instance_identifier'] = $this->mysql_dbcon;

```

**What I want to achieve**

I want to create a class in which the developer can set a MySQL connection and each instance can access to different databases so each instance will show data from different databases. The problem is the dynamic loading of that data.

Thanks in advance

Answer: 
You cannot solve it.

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> but this script can't access the instance's mysql\_dbcon variable due to it's an independent script execution
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Exactly. Period. You're starting an entirely different PHP script which shares absolutely nothing with the previous script. In fact, by the time the AJAX request is initiated by the browser, the "existing" MySQL connection will already be torn down and closed since the entire PHP script has already stopped.

"myscript.php" will simply have to open a new connection. You cannot serialise a connection into a session; it's not data which can be represented in a serialised form. This is exactly the same mechanism as any other two independent PHP files, the fact that `include` and AJAX are involved changes nothing.

Also see <https://stackoverflow.com/a/13840431/476>
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> Is it correct to store the MySQL connection in $\_SESSION so all the scripts can access it?
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No.

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> I'm facing a problem
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You probably aren't, or at least it's not the problem you think it is. It's likely there is no reason for you to need to try to "share" the same database connection across the scripts, even if you could. If you provide more context about why you want to access the same connection, then further advice can be given. There is probably a better way to achieve what you want.

Perhaps you are trying to access one query's result set in different places, in which case the answer would not be trying to share a connection but probably to pass the result set itself.

---

**Additional note about your syntax**

```
class MyClass {

    function MyClass($mysql_dbcon) {

```

Looks like you're using outdated PHP 4 syntax for your constructors. See the manual entry on [constructors in PHP 5](http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.decon.php) for the modern standard.

It's also good practice to define the visibility of your class members using the `public`/`protected`/`private` keywords. See the manual entry on [visibility](http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.visibility.php).