I have a simple PHP / MySql application which will generally pick one of several databases (let's say one per customer) to manipulate. However, there are frequent calls to utility functions which access a common database.
I don't want to sprinkle USE
clauses throughout my code, so it looks like I ought to push the current database at the start of each utility function and pop it again at the end. Something like this (from the top of my head, so prolly won't work, but will give an idea).
function ConnectToDatabase($db)
{
global $current_database;
$current_database = $db;
odb_exec('USE ' . $db); // etc. Error handling omitted for clarity
}
function UtilityFunction()
{
odb_exec('USE common_db'); // etc. Error handling omitted for clarity
// do some work here
global $current_database;
ConnectToDatabase($current_database);
}
Maybe I can make it prettier by combining global $current_database; ConnectToDatabase($current_database);
into a PopCurrentDb
function, but you get the picture.
is this better done in PHP? Is there a MySql solution (but later I want to be ODBC compliant, so maybe PHP is better). How do others do it?
Update: in the end I just decided to always fully qualify access,
e.g. SELECT * from $database . '.' . $table