Laravel 5.2 use two different database connections simultaneously (sqlsrv + mysql) - php

Question

I would like to do something like this when i use a model
class DB extends Model {
Protected $table = "mssql_table";
}
DB::useConnection("mssql")->All();
As far as configuration goes i've found out that I can add it myself in app/config/database.php
And so I did.
So now i've got this in my connetions:
'mssql' => [
'driver' => 'sqlsrv',
'host' => env('DB_MSSQL_HOST', 'localhost'),
'port' => env('DB_MSSQL_PORT', '3306'),
'database' => env('DB_MSSQL_DATABASE', 'forge'),
'username' => env('DB_MSSQL_USERNAME', 'forge'),
'password' => env('DB_MSSQL_PASSWORD', ''),
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
'strict' => false,
'engine' => null,
],
and this to my .env file
DB_MSSQL_HOST=
DB_MSSQL_PORT=
DB_MSSQL_DATABASE=
DB_MSSQL_USERNAME=
DB_MSSQL_PASSWORD=
But what is the next step? google didnt really help me that much, in laravel 4.* you could use db::connection(); but it dosent seem to work anymore
Any ideas?

Answer 1

First, you need to set-up one or more databases in your config (be sure to change values, I just pretty much copied and pasted):
'db1' => [
'driver' => 'sqlsrv',
'host' => env('DB_MSSQL_HOST', 'localhost'),
'port' => env('DB_MSSQL_PORT', '3306'),
'database' => env('DB_MSSQL_DATABASE', 'forge'),
'username' => env('DB_MSSQL_USERNAME', 'forge'),
'password' => env('DB_MSSQL_PASSWORD', ''),
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
'strict' => false,
'engine' => null,
],
'db2' => [
'driver' => 'sqlsrv',
'host' => env('DB_MSSQL_HOST', 'localhost'),
'port' => env('DB_MSSQL_PORT', '3306'),
'database' => env('DB_MSSQL_DATABASE', 'forge'),
'username' => env('DB_MSSQL_USERNAME', 'forge'),
'password' => env('DB_MSSQL_PASSWORD', ''),
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
'strict' => false,
'engine' => null,
],
Then of course, you're going to need to create some migration schema for the newly added database (you need tables, etc.):
Schema::connection('db2')->create('table_name', function($table)
{
$table->increments('id');
...
});
Now in your Eloquent model, you can define what database you want to use like so:
class ModelName extends Eloquent {
protected $connection = 'db2';
}

Answer 2

Thank you #Mike Barwick, the only thing that i was looking for was protected $connection = ""
Now i can query 2 databases at once