How To Use Laravel Multiple Database Connections Feature On A Website

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Do you have a Laravel website and looking for connecting multiple databases? In this video, we study Laravel multiple database connections feature which is bundled by default when we install the Laravel.

Usually, we need a single database for one website. But, if your database is large in terms of users, features, different kinds of modules then probably you are looking to use multiple databases with a single website.

Laravel stores database connection in the file config/database.php. To connect the another database we should add our new connection in this file.

For instance, let’s say we need to connect one more MySQL database. So, we will add connection as ‘mysql2’.

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