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class Sistema {

    protected $db;

    protected $total = 0;

    public function __construct() {

    }

    public function dbconnect() {

        $host_name = 'localhost';
        $database = 'mycbs';
        $user_name = 'root';
        $password = '';

        $options = array(
            MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES 'UTF8'"
        );

        $pdo = null;
        try {
          $pdo = new PDO("mysql:host=$host_name; dbname=$database;", $user_name, $password, $options);
          $this->db = $pdo;
        } catch (PDOException $e) {
          echo "Error!: " . $e->getMessage() . "<br/>";
          die();
        }



    }

}

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