Making preset class variables available to functions
<?php
    Class DBcalls {

        private static $dbconn = pg_connect("host=localhost port=5432 dbname=dbnamehere user=usernamejere password=1234567");

        function adbcallfunc($called){

            $result = pg_prepare($dbconn, "adbcallfunc", 'select somecolumn from table where somecolumn = $1');
            $result = pg_execute($dbconn, "adbcallfunc", array($called));
            $GetResult = @pg_fetch_array($result);
            $key = 'othercolumn';
            $wantedresults = $GetResult[$key];
            return $totalviews;
        }

    }

$query = new DBcalls;
$query = $query->IPViewCount('foo');
echo $query;