Need Single Connection page

[AzeemNYC]

In all of my admin pages for this site I am connecting to the same host,db, with the same pw on every single page how can I just include one php page which has that connection string?

what should the code look like that goes on each page?

I am guessing that my connect.php page will look like:

$link_id = mysql_connect ("runtech1", "the_mirror", "something");
mysql_select_db("the_mirror", $link_id);

I am using $link_id in all of my while loops on all the pages so I want to maintain that variable name

[AzeemNYC]

the main reason I want to centralize it is so that I dont have to change every single file.. when I change my local hostname to the servers host name when i am done uploading the site.

[griffinmt]

Rather than copy in the code, isolate a php to set variables to the desired values, then use them in the code in every other page.

Wrap the variable setups in php prefix/postfix and jst include them at the begining of every php that you need them.

If you need to change the db name or password etc, make the change in the one isolated php file and automagically all references use the correct values.