Laravel Dynamic model database - mysql

Question

I have a Model for DB tables, basically is one table but in different databases,
How can I set a connection to DB in Model?
protected $connection = 'ls';
Above code is not that I am looking for, I need to pass host, port, username and password. because conection are stored in DB not in config file.
I was thinking for function __construct() and call like Model($data)::where()..etc
Or I am thinking wrong way, can somebody give me an better idea.?

Answer 1

You can connect from Eloquent model by maintaining following aspects
First you can define multiple connection in database.php file
<?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' => '',
),
),
);
You have your default connection still set to mysql . This means that, unless we specify otherwise, the application will use that mysql connection.
Now in your model you can specify which connection to use
<?php
class SomeModel extends Eloquent {
protected $connection = 'mysql2';
}
You can also define the connection at runtime via the setConnection method.
<?php
class SomeController extends BaseController {
public function someMethod()
{
$someModel = new SomeModel;
$someModel->setConnection('mysql2');
$something = $someModel->find(1);
return $something;
}
}