Laravel Multiple DB Connections in Laravel Initial Steps
Example
Multiple database connections, of any type, can be defined inside the database configuration file (likely app/config/database.php). For instance, to pull data from 2 MySQL databases define them both separately:
<?php
return array(
'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' => '',
),
),
);
The default connection is still set to mysql. This means unless otherwise specified, the application uses the mysql connection.
