Using another connection in laravel project
Submitted by tuytoosh - 8 years ago
If you want to use(or work with) another database in a section of your project use following steps... step 1. Create another connection in config/database.php step 2. Insert new connection info in .env file... step 3. Tell to laravel to use this new connection
//create connection in config/database.php
'mysql2' => [
'driver' => 'mysql',
'host' => env('DB_EXT_HOST', 'localhost'),
'database' => env('DB_EXT_DATABASE', 'db2'),
'username' => env('DB_EXT_USERNAME', 'username'),
'password' => env('DB_EXT_PASSWORD', 'password'),
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
'strict' => false,
],
//edit .env file
DB_EXT_HOST=localhost
DB_EXT_DATABASE=db2
DB_EXT_USERNAME=username
DB_EXT_PASSWORD=password
//using in eloquent model
<?php
class SomeModel extends Eloquent {
protected $connection = 'mysql2';
}
//using in controller
<?php
class SomeController extends BaseController {
public function someMethod()
{
$someModel = new SomeModel;
$someModel->setConnection('mysql2');
$something = $someModel->find(1);
return $something;
}
}
//using in Query builder
$users = DB::connection('mysql2')->select(...);
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