<?php
    class Database {

    private static $host = "localhost";
    private static $db_name = "c9";
    private static $username = "theandrewilliam";
    private static $password = "";
    private static $socket = "mysql";

    //Instance of class
    private $instance = NULL;

    //Connection to Database (predefined function)
    public function __construct(){

        if($this -> instance == NULL){
            try{

                $db = new PDO(self::$socket.':'.'host'.'='.self::$host.';'
                .'dbname'.'='.self::$db_name,self::$username,self::$password);

                $this -> instance = $db;

            } catch(PDOException $e){

                die($e -> getMessage());

            }
        }

    }

    //Queries
    public function query($sql){

        $query = $this -> instance = prepare($sql);
        $query -> execute();

        return $query;

    }

    }

$data = new Database();

$sq = 'SELECT * FROM body';

$result = $data -> query($sq);

while($row = $result -> $query -> fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)){

$body = $row['text'];
echo $body;

}