Connection failed: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused<br />
<b>Fatal error</b>:  Uncaught Error: Call to a member function prepare() on null in /home/www/wwwroot/70DegreePledge.org/models/Author.php:35
Stack trace:
#0 /home/www/wwwroot/70DegreePledge.org/public/author.php(12): Author-&gt;getAuthorByName()
#1 {main}
  thrown in <b>/home/www/wwwroot/70DegreePledge.org/models/Author.php</b> on line <b>35</b><br />