Laravel Change Connection Dynamically
I will go for a helper here. Let's create one in app/Helpers/DatabaseConnection.php
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namespace App\Helpers;
use Config;
use DB;
class DatabaseConnection
{
public static function setConnection($params)
{
config(['database.connections.onthefly' => [
'driver' => $params->driver,
'host' => $params->host,
'username' => $params->username,
'password' => $params->password
]]);
return DB::connection('onthefly');
}
}
And now somewhere in controller we try
use App\Helpers\DatabaseConnection;
...
$params = Database::find( 1 );
$connection = DatabaseConnection::setConnection($params);
$users = $connection->select(...);
Note: Not tested. I hope it works or simply guide you
More info:
Using multi database: https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/database#read-and-write-connections
Setting configurations on the fly: https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/configuration#accessing-configuration-values
Thanks, EddyTheDove, I am using your solution which is great :) just to know how to select table name I am putting this
namespace App\Helpers;
use Config;
use DB;
class DatabaseConnection
{
public static function setConnection($params)
{
config(['database.connections.onthefly' => [
'driver' => $params->driver,
'host' => $params->host,
'username' => $params->username,
'password' => $params->password
]]);
return DB::connection('onthefly');
}
}
And now somewhere in controller we try
use App\Helpers\DatabaseConnection; ...
$params['connection_name'] = 'onthefly';
$params['dbname'] ='dbname';
$params['driver'] = 'mysql';
$params['host'] = 'localhost';
$params['username'] = 'root';
$params['password'] = '';
$params['port'] = 3306;
$connection = DatabaseConnection::setConnection($params);
$getTableData = $connection->table('table_name')->where("column_name",'=','matchCondition')->get();