Database Management in Laravel
Learn how to manage multiple database connections with Laravel.
Multiple database configurations
As discussed earlier in the course, Laravel provides a standardized way to manage database connections by setting up credentials in an .env
file.
Sometimes, we need to set up multiple databases simultaneously. To do that, we set up other database credentials in the config/database.php
and .env
files.
In the code snippet below, a second credential for multiple databases is being set up. But first, a new instance named mysql_second_instance
is created in config/database.php
.
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