Laravel 5 Changing Database name in controller - php

Question

ers. I need to change the database name into a specific controller. I already changed the database.php into this
'sqlsrv' => [
'driver' => 'sqlsrv',
'host' => env('DB_HOST', 'loal'),
'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'test1'),
'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', ''),
'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
'charset' => 'utf8',
'prefix' => '',
],
'sqlsrv2' => [
'driver' => 'sqlsrv',
'host' => env('DB_HOST', 'local'),
'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'test2'),
'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', ''),
'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
'charset' => 'utf8',
'prefix' => '',
],
My main DB is test1 and I need to change it into test2 db name in here :
public function TransactionHistory(Request $request){
Config::set('database.default','sqlsrv2');
dd(DB::connection() );
}
But it only returns null and it is still reading test 1. Anyone?

Answer 1

One way is to change the connection by using DB::connection() method:
$connection = DB::connection('sqlsrv2'); //this will create a database connection using sqlsrv2 in your config.
Now, you can use $connection to run the queries, etc.
Reference :

Answer 2

If you are using Eluquent there is more elegant way Database Connection
Create enother config for second connection
`
'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' => '',
),
);
`
Set connection in your Model:
`
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Flight extends Model
{
/**
* The connection name for the model.
*
* #var string
*/
protected $connection = 'connection-name';
}