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How to manage database connections


Tibaso

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At the moment I am writing an application that supports plugins. Every plugin implements an interface so that the main application can control the plugin with the interface methods. There could be plugins that need a database connection and others that do not. What I am doing at the moment is loading every plugin with a __construct($databaseHandler). For plugins that don't need a database connection this is a little overhead.

 

I could also use a Singleton or something else "staticish" so that the plugin can get the database instance whenever it wants, but then the plugin can only be used for my application where this specific Singleton is present and maybe I would like to use the plugin for other purposes later in another environment without changing it.

 

Do you have any better ideas or how do you normally manage your database connections?

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