I want to store multiple database connection in my current laravel db. i need to connect these via dropdown and generate reports on the fly. what is the best way to configure this
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You can just create a table "connection(strings)" in your 1st db and create a model for that table.
After that you can do something like this:
$selected = Connection::query()->where('name', 'fromdropdown')->first();
$connection = $selected;
config(['database.connections.data' => array(
'driver' => 'sqlsrv',
'host' => $connection['Database_Server'],
'database' => $connection['Database_Name'],
'username' => $connection['Database_User'],
'password' => $connection['Database_Pass']
)]);
DB::setDefaultConnection('data');
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vikram
Sorry but can you be some more precise how will i perform queries from that connection
online Thomas
Well laravel will always use the default db connection, which we set in the last line :)
You can set multiple database connections in the app/config/database.php file.
Example:
'default' => 'mysql',
'connections' => array(
# Our primary database connection
'mysql' => array(
'driver' => 'mysql',
'host' => 'host1',
'database' => 'database1',
'username' => 'user1',
'password' => 'pass1'
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
),
# Our secondary database connection
'mysql2' => array(
'driver' => 'mysql',
'host' => 'host2',
'database' => 'database2',
'username' => 'user2',
'password' => 'pass2'
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
),
)
And then just use the connection name in your query:
$users = DB::connection('mysql2')->select(...);
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vikram
Thanks for your response but i will have to add 15 db connections and more will be added in future so i need to put in the current db.