<?php

$db = new mysqli('localhost','user','pass');

$crawl = new crawl($db);
$crawl->check_db();


class crawl {

	private $db;

	function __construct(&$db) {
		$this->db =& $db;
	}

    // An example of trying to integrate my database opject
    function check_db(){
        
        $query = "SELECT NOW() AS now";
        if($stmt=$this->db->query()){
            $stmt->execute();
            $stmt->bind_result($now);
            $stmt->fetch();
            $stmt->close();
            
            echo $now;
            
        } else {
            echo 'Unable to prepare statement';
        }    
    }

}



?>