PHP Connection Class usage - Snippet

$connection = new Connection;
$connection->connect();
$connection->runQuery("SELECT * FROM `news_posts` ORDER BY `date` DESC LIMIT $start , $count");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($connection->getResult()))
{
    $post = new BlogPost;
    $post->setDetailsFromRow($row);
    echo $post->getGeneratedPostHtml();
}
$connection->freeResult();
$connection->close();