best way to deal with database connections in classes

[rajend3]

I have a user class that hold user names, emails and related methods that needs to write to a database. Passing a database object or database variables to the class so it can write to the database seems odd to me. Is this the correct way or is there some other standard?

[johanafm]

I'd say it's the preferrable way. You could also have the User constructor itself acquire the db resource.