Framework: REQUEST: Specifying DB connection information dynamically instead of config key

[abishekrsrikaanth]

Currently there is not way to create dynamic connections on Laravel other than specifying a config key and using

`DB::connection('key')

It would be good to specify the connection information dynamically, something like this

DB::createConnection(array(
              'driver'    => 'mysql',
            'host'      => 'localhost',
            'database'  => 'dbname',
            'username'  => 'dbuser',
            'password'  => 'dbpass',
            'charset'   => 'utf8',
            'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
            'prefix'    => '',
            )

[crynobone]

Config::set('database.connections.key', array(
    'driver'    => 'mysql',
    'host'      => 'localhost',
    'database'  => 'dbname',
    'username'  => 'dbuser',
    'password'  => 'dbpass',
    'charset'   => 'utf8',
    'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
    'prefix'    => '',
));

With that DB::connection('key'); would just work.

[abishekrsrikaanth]

crynobone, thanks for this. Does it require specify any config info named key on database.php? or will it just create this config on the fly?

[crynobone]

You can create the config on the fly, it would just be appended to "database.connections" config.

[abishekrsrikaanth]

Thanks, that works. Appreciate your help