Re: Fwd: [PHP-DB] MySQLi connections

Reading the thread on mysqli connection issues, I am curious if anyone 
knows of a downside to creating a connection from a configuration page 
and using it as a global in all functions?

I am used to creating a class and a database handle for functions to 
use, but I inherited an intranet that just uses a single "$mysqli = 
mysqli_connect ...." in a global main file and the just uses "global 
$mysqli" in all of it's functions (several hundred) that interact with 
the database.

Since I have not seen this structure used elsewhere, I assume there is a 
good reason not to use it, but I haven't found one (except for the 
security issue in the use of globals).

Could anyone point me towards any documentation on why such a structure 
is bad?

Thanks,

Jeff