[j-a-m-i-n]

Hi,

Just wanted to gather some opinions on whether it's bad practice to open and close connections to the database more than once in one php file?

Should I just open the connection once and close it once?

Will this considerably affect page load time?

It's just that I have a news system in which I want to develop a 'headline manager' for managing news articles displayed on the homepage.

This means i will have say (higher up on the page) the very latest database entry and further down the next 4 entries.

Would it be best to open and close the connection for the latest entry query and then open up the connection again further down?

Thanks for your time,
Ben

[TheDemoSite]

I would not close a connection if there was any chance of using it again before the script ended.