[wp-hackers] Using wpdb by inheriting the class

[Chris Coggburn]

I was talking with a C++ developer, and they sure are fond of OOP 
programming, and they mentioned that the best way to access $wpdb would 
be to define your own class for your plugin and then just inherit wpdb 
into that class. This would allow you to add your own $tables to the 
$wpdb class. Just wondering what the developers think of this, it has 
saved me so much time and hack jobs so I am fond of it.

Example:

class someplugin extends wpdb {
  var $newtablevar;
  function someplugin() { // This calls the wpdb constructor to select 
the db for access
  global $loginsql, $passsql, $base, $server, $table_prefix;
  $this->newtablevar = $table_prefix . 'NEWTABLENAME';
  $this->wpdb($loginsql, $passsql, $base, $server);
  }
  function dosomething() {
    echo $this->get_row('SELECT 'stuff' FROM $this->newtablevar WHERE id=1);
  }
}

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Chris Coggburn
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