Hello,
I have two databases first one was created by OctoberCMS during installation process and the other one which i had already. how do i connect to that other database, i tried using builder plug-in but i am confused how to do it.
I want to connect to the other database and fetch information from one table and display on my home page.
Please help me with this. I am newbie to this CMS.
Thank you.
In your /config/database.php you will have something like this (assuming MySQL):
'mysql' => [
'driver' => 'mysql',
'host' => 'localhost',
'port' => '3306',
'database' => 'database_name',
'username' => 'username',
'password' => 'password',
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
],
Just add another one after it, changing the name to something else (mysql-legacy in my example below, before the pgsql configuration) and the relevant connection details:
'mysql-legacy' => [
'driver' => 'mysql',
'host' => 'localhost',
'port' => '3306',
'database' => 'database_name',
'username' => 'username',
'password' => 'password',
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
],
After that, you can use DB; in your model or controller and then do things like this:
$query = DB::connection('mysql-legacy')->select('SELECT * FROM tablename');