What is the best way to connect to my database with PDO

[youngboy84]

I am tring to learn about PDO people have said its easy and the best way to interact with the database, but im not finding it easy. can any help?

 

Should i have my connection in its own class and extend it to the rest of my classes or should i use a global variable to connect? or is there another way better?

 

i read up about the try and catch method not very good either. my database is mysql