Comments on: Dynamic Database Connection with CakePHP http://beyondthewheel.com/dynamic-database-connection-with-cakephp/ Web Development Thu, 13 May 2010 12:35:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Arno Esterhuizen http://beyondthewheel.com/dynamic-database-connection-with-cakephp/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Arno Esterhuizen Thu, 13 May 2010 12:35:08 +0000 http://matthewanderton.com/beyondthewheel.com/?p=10#comment-81 OK, this might be a bit late, but you can also use the following code in your model <pre lang="php"> $newDb =& ConnectionManager::create('dynamic_db', array( 'driver' => 'mysql', 'host' => 'local', 'login' => 'user', 'password' => 'pass', 'database' => 'my_db')); $this->useDb = 'dynamic_db'; </pre> as per https://dev.cakephp.org/ticket/1068 OK, this might be a bit late, but you can also use the following code in your model

$newDb =&amp; ConnectionManager::create('dynamic_db', 
array(
    'driver' =&gt;  'mysql',
    'host' =&gt; 'local',
    'login' =&gt; 'user',
    'password' =&gt; 'pass',
    'database' =&gt; 'my_db'));
 
$this-&gt;useDb = 'dynamic_db';

as per https://dev.cakephp.org/ticket/1068

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