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<section id="connecting-to-your-database">
<h1>Connecting to your Database<a class="headerlink" href="#connecting-to-your-database" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<div class="contents local topic" id="contents">
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#available-parameters" id="id1">Available Parameters</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#manually-connecting-to-a-database" id="id2">Manually Connecting to a Database</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#multiple-connections-to-same-database" id="id3">Multiple Connections to Same Database</a></p>
<ul>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#connecting-to-multiple-databases" id="id4">Connecting to Multiple Databases</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#connecting-with-custom-settings" id="id5">Connecting with Custom Settings</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#reconnecting-keeping-the-connection-alive" id="id6">Reconnecting / Keeping the Connection Alive</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#manually-closing-the-connection" id="id7">Manually closing the Connection</a></p></li>
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<p>You can connect to your database by adding this line of code in any
function where it is needed, or in your class constructor to make the
database available globally in that class.</p>
<div class="highlight-html+php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
<span class="nv">$db</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">\Config\Database</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="na">connect</span><span class="p">();</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>If the above function does <strong>not</strong> contain any information in the first
parameter, it will connect to the default group specified in your database config
file. For most people, this is the preferred method of use.</p>
<p>A convenience method exists that is purely a wrapper around the above line
and is provided for your convenience:</p>
<div class="highlight-html+php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
<span class="nv">$db</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">db_connect</span><span class="p">();</span>
</pre></div>
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<section id="available-parameters">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id1">Available Parameters</a><a class="headerlink" href="#available-parameters" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p><strong>\Config\Database::connect($group = null, bool $getShared = true): BaseConnection</strong></p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">$group</span></code>: The database group name, a string that must match the config class property name. Default value is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">$config-&gt;defaultGroup</span></code>.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">$getShared</span></code>: true/false (boolean). Whether to return the shared connection (see
Connecting to Multiple Databases below).</p></li>
</ol>
</section>
<section id="manually-connecting-to-a-database">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2">Manually Connecting to a Database</a><a class="headerlink" href="#manually-connecting-to-a-database" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The first parameter of this function can <strong>optionally</strong> be used to
specify a particular database group from your config file. Examples:</p>
<p>To choose a specific group from your config file you can do this:</p>
<div class="highlight-html+php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
<span class="nv">$db</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">\Config\Database</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="na">connect</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;group_name&#39;</span><span class="p">);</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>Where group_name is the name of the connection group from your config
file.</p>
</section>
<section id="multiple-connections-to-same-database">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3">Multiple Connections to Same Database</a><a class="headerlink" href="#multiple-connections-to-same-database" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>By default, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">connect()</span></code> method will return the same instance of the
database connection every time. If you need to have a separate connection
to the same database, send <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">false</span></code> as the second parameter:</p>
<div class="highlight-html+php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
<span class="nv">$db</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">\Config\Database</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="na">connect</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;group_name&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="k">false</span><span class="p">);</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<section id="connecting-to-multiple-databases">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4">Connecting to Multiple Databases</a><a class="headerlink" href="#connecting-to-multiple-databases" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>If you need to connect to more than one database simultaneously you can
do so as follows:</p>
<div class="highlight-html+php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
<span class="nv">$db1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">\Config\Database</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="na">connect</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;group_one&#39;</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="nv">$db2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">\Config\Database</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="na">connect</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;group_two&#39;</span><span class="p">);</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Note: Change the words <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">group_one</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">group_two</span></code> to the specific
group names you are connecting to.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>You dont need to create separate database configurations if you
only need to use a different database on the same connection. You
can switch to a different database when you need to, like this:
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">$db-&gt;setDatabase($database2_name);</span></code></p>
</div>
</section>
<section id="connecting-with-custom-settings">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">Connecting with Custom Settings</a><a class="headerlink" href="#connecting-with-custom-settings" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>You can pass in an array of database settings instead of a group name to get
a connection that uses your custom settings. The array passed in must be
the same format as the groups are defined in the configuration file:</p>
<div class="highlight-html+php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
<span class="nv">$custom</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;DSN&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">&#39;&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;hostname&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">&#39;localhost&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;username&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">&#39;&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;password&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">&#39;&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;database&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">&#39;&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;DBDriver&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">&#39;MySQLi&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;DBPrefix&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">&#39;&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;pConnect&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="k">false</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;DBDebug&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">ENVIRONMENT</span> <span class="o">!==</span> <span class="s1">&#39;production&#39;</span><span class="p">),</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;charset&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">&#39;utf8&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;DBCollat&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">&#39;utf8_general_ci&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;swapPre&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">&#39;&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;encrypt&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="k">false</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;compress&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="k">false</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;strictOn&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="k">false</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;failover&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="p">[],</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;port&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="mi">3306</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="p">];</span>
<span class="nv">$db</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">\Config\Database</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="na">connect</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$custom</span><span class="p">);</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="reconnecting-keeping-the-connection-alive">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6">Reconnecting / Keeping the Connection Alive</a><a class="headerlink" href="#reconnecting-keeping-the-connection-alive" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>If the database servers idle timeout is exceeded while youre doing
some heavy PHP lifting (processing an image, for instance), you should
consider pinging the server by using the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">reconnect()</span></code> method before
sending further queries, which can gracefully keep the connection alive
or re-establish it.</p>
<div class="admonition important">
<p class="admonition-title">Important</p>
<p>If you are using MySQLi database driver, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">reconnect()</span></code> method
does not ping the server but it closes the connection then connects again.</p>
</div>
<div class="highlight-html+php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
<span class="nv">$db</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">reconnect</span><span class="p">();</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="manually-closing-the-connection">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7">Manually closing the Connection</a><a class="headerlink" href="#manually-closing-the-connection" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>While CodeIgniter intelligently takes care of closing your database
connections, you can explicitly close the connection.</p>
<div class="highlight-html+php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
<span class="nv">$db</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">close</span><span class="p">();</span>
</pre></div>
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