new to classes, need help

I'm trying to get my head around php classes. I want to write a small php file (call it genericly uniquepagesomething.php) that will call the pagemaker.class. For example Apples3.php that calls pagemaker.class. In pagemaker.class, it will look up page 3 of the topic apples from a table and get the text file. It will also look up the proper template to use. pagemaker.class will then insert the text file into the template and print it out to the browser. Here is what I have cobbled together so far from various things i've read. --------- uniquepagesomething.php -------- <?php require("pagemaker.class"); $pagemaker = new pagemaker; $pagemaker->find($findpage, $pagesomething); $pagemaker->make("pagesomething"); ?> --------- pagemaker.class -------- <?php class pagemaker

     var $Host     = ""; // Hostname of our MySQL server.
     var $Database = ""; // Logical database name on that server.
     var $User     = ""; // User und Password for login.
     var $Password = "";

     var $Link_ID  = 0;  // Result of mysql_connect().
     var $Query_ID = 0;  // Result of most recent mysql_query().
     var $Record   = array();  // current mysql_fetch_array()-result.
     var $Row;           // current row number.

     var $Errno    = 0;  // error state of query...
     var $Error    = "";

     function find($findpage,$pagesomething) {
              $this->$findpage=$pagesomething;  //fix this to split the topic and page number
              $this->$Query_String="select tmplt, image, file, desc from pages where ";  //fix this too
              $this->connect();

          #   printf("Debug: query = %s<br>n", $Query_String);

              $this->Query_ID = mysql_query($this->Query_String,$this->Link_ID);
              $this->Row   = 0;
              $this->Errno = mysql_errno();
              $this->Error = mysql_error();
              if (!$this->Query_ID) {
                 $this->halt("Invalid SQL: ".$Query_String);
              }

              return $this->Query_ID;
     }
     function halt($msg) {
              printf("<b>Database error:</b> %s<br>\n", $msg);
              printf("<b>MySQL Error</b>: %s (%s)<br>\n",
              $this->Errno,
              $this->Error);
              die("Session halted.");
     }

     function connect() {
              if (0 == $this->Link_ID ) {
                  $this->Link_ID=mysql_connect($this->Host, $this->User, $this->Password);
                  if (!$this->Link_ID) {
                     $this->halt("Link-ID == false, connect failed");
                  }
                  if (!mysql_query(sprintf("use %s",$this->Database),$this->Link_ID)) {
                     $this->halt("cannot use database ".$this->Database);
                  }
              }
     }

find(); ?> Is this going anywhere in the right direction? any comments are welcome Thanks