diff --git a/src/connect-db.php b/src/connect-db.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3a791ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/connect-db.php
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?php
+function connexionDB($host,$db,$user,$pass) {
+    $dsn = "mysql:host=$host;dbname=$db;charset=UTF8";
+
+    try {
+        $pdo = new PDO($dsn, $user, $pass, [
+            PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION, // Mode erreur
+            PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => PDO::FETCH_ASSOC, // Mode de récupération
+            PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES => false, // Préparation réelle des requêtes
+        ]);
+        return $pdo;
+    } catch (PDOException $e) {
+        die("Erreur de connexion : " . $e->getMessage());
+    }
+}
+?>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/connect.php b/src/connect.php
deleted file mode 100644
index f56ab79..0000000
--- a/src/connect.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-require_once 'config.php';
-function connect($host, $db, $user, $password)
-{
-	$dsn = "mysql:host=$host;dbname=$db;charset=UTF8";
-
-	try {
-		$options = [PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION];
-
-		return new PDO($dsn, $user, $password, $options);
-	} catch (PDOException $e) {
-		die($e->getMessage());
-	}
-}
-
diff --git a/src/createtable.php b/src/createtable.php
index 4da859f..5153d6f 100644
--- a/src/createtable.php
+++ b/src/createtable.php
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 <?php
 require_once 'config.php';
 // conection db
-$conn = require 'connect.php';
+require_once 'connect-db.php';
+
 ?>
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
@@ -17,6 +18,8 @@ $conn = require 'connect.php';
 <?php echo $site_copyright; echo "<hr>"; ?>
 <?php
 
+$conn=connexionDB($host, $db, $user, $password);
+//echo $conn;
 // sql to create table
 $sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS $table (
 id INT(6) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, 
@@ -26,7 +29,6 @@ email VARCHAR(50) UNIQUE,
 reg_date TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
 mod_date TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
 )";
-
 try {
     $conn->query($sql);
     echo "<p>Table <b>".$table."</b> created successfully</p>"; 
diff --git a/src/deletetable.php b/src/deletetable.php
index e9b7b20..715bd0b 100644
--- a/src/deletetable.php
+++ b/src/deletetable.php
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?php
 require_once 'config.php';
 // conection db
-$conn = require 'connect.php';
+require_once 'connect-db.php';
 ?>
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ $conn = require 'connect.php';
 <h2><?php echo $db_site_title ?></h2>
 <?php echo $site_copyright; echo "<hr>"; ?>
 <?php
+
+// connect to DB
+$conn=connexionDB($host, $db, $user, $password);
+
 // sql to create table
 $sql = "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS $table;";
 
diff --git a/src/managetable.php b/src/managetable.php
index 8cccafd..6f37140 100644
--- a/src/managetable.php
+++ b/src/managetable.php
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?>\n";
 require_once 'config.php';
 // conection db
-$conn=require 'connect.php';
+require_once 'connect-db.php';
+$conn=connexionDB($host, $db, $user, $password);
 
 $defaultAction='add';
 $defaultModCre=false; // display or not created/modified date
