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I'm getting the following errors when I run `cat /var/log/apache/error.log` -> PHP Notice: Undefined variable: db_connection in /var/www/html/popreport/includes/inmate.php on line 18 -> PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function query() on a non-object in /var/www/html/popreport/includes/inmate.php on line 18 When I try this in my browser I start with test.php test.php <?php require_once("./database.php"); require_once("./inmate.php"); // foreach($query as $row) // { // print_r($row) . "<br />"; // } $inmate = array(); $inmate = new Inmate($inmate); foreach($inmate as $row) { print $row->firstl_name . "<br />"; } ?> database.php <?php include("./constants.php"); try { $db_connection = new PDO("mysql:host=$host;dbname=$db_name", $db_user, $password); $db_connection->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION); } catch (PDOException $e) { print "Error!: " . $e->getMessage() . "<br />"; die(); } ?> inmate.php <?php require_once("./database.php"); class Inmate { private $first_name = ''; private $last_name = ''; private $full_name = ''; private $race = ''; private $number = 0; private $facility = ''; private $type_of_transit = ''; public function __construct($inmate) { $sql = "SELECT * FROM inmate_board"; $query = $db_connection->query($sql); $result = $query->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); foreach($result as $row) { $this->$first_name = $result['first_name']; } } public function get_property($property) { return $this->$property; } } ?> In inmate.php I also tried to change the line `$query = $db_connection->query($sql);` to `$query = global $db_connection->query($sql);` but I didn't have any luck here either. Any ideas?

Hi guys, I've been following some discussions in Linux forums about migrating from MySQL to MariaDB. Linux community seems very enthusiastic about this migration and some distros already set MariaDB as their default SQL database, for example, OpenSUSE 13.1. But what do you, web developers, think about this? Overall, are web developers really planning to migrate from MySQL to MariaDB? Do you think MariaDB will be more used than MySQL in the near future?