Hi all, I'm a n00b when it comes to PHP, but I come from a background of C++ programming.

My boss recently started a project to revamp our website to include some database driven pages with PHP, and I was put in charge of creating the scripts to communicate with the database.

Being a stickler for structured code, I decided the best route would be to create a class in PHP for database communications, but I'm having some trouble with syntax.  Here's a test class I tried to create, and I'm getting parser errors when I try to include it in my test page:

class DB_class {
   var $host = "host";
   var $user = "user";
   var $pass = "pass";

   function DB_class { #constructor
     $db = mysql_connect($this->host, $this->user, $this->pass);
    return $db;
    };
};

In my test.php i'm using

include("db_class.php");

$db_link = new DB_class;

And, getting 'expecting FUNCTION' error messages.  The syntax seems right as far as I can tell from the manual, so I'm sort of stumped on this silly problem.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.