ill return the database object.</p>

<div class="important">
<p>When you connect this way, you will use your object name to issue commands rather than the syntax used throughout this guide.  In other words, rather than issuing commands with:</p>

<p>$this->db->query();<br />$this->db->result();<br /> etc...</p>

<p>You will instead use:</p>

<p>$DB1->query();<br />$DB1->result();<br /> etc...</p>

</div>

<h2>Reconnecting / Keeping the Connection Alive</h2>

<p>If the database server's idle timeout is excee