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Best way to get just a tiny bit of data from another database - El Forum - 07-02-2008 [eluser]Bramme[/eluser] Hey all, I'm working on a new website (my second in CI ^^), but I've stumbled upon a problem: The site has a phpbb3 forum and people who comment on the site announcements or blog entries can enter their forums password, that way their avatar gets shown etc. This is the only time I need to connect to another database. What would be a good coding approach to this? Thanks for your thoughts and time! Best way to get just a tiny bit of data from another database - El Forum - 07-03-2008 [eluser]Bramme[/eluser] Okay, after reading the user guide, I decided to use this approach to connect to the phpbb3 database: Code: $dsn = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/db'; Best way to get just a tiny bit of data from another database - El Forum - 07-03-2008 [eluser]Jeff Logan[/eluser] You can use mysql_close(), although non-persistent open links are automatically closed at the end of the script's execution so it is not necessary (although good coding practice - expecially if you are using a mixture of non-persistent and persistent connections in your code). You can also specify which connection to close, otherwise it closes the last connection made. Code: mysql_close ([ resource $link_identifier ] ) Hope the above helps. Best way to get just a tiny bit of data from another database - El Forum - 07-03-2008 [eluser]Bramme[/eluser] Yeah, that's directly from the php.net documentation, but how do I get $link_identifier? It can't be just $phpbb (as in my example) seeing as that's an object... Meh, I'll go through the library and hope to find it. Best way to get just a tiny bit of data from another database - El Forum - 07-15-2008 [eluser]elvix[/eluser] I think the way to go (least how I've got it working) for a one-time call to a second db is: Set up second DB config array in database config file. $config['newdb']['hostname'] .... Set pconnect to FALSE Create object for other DB: $NEWDB = $this->load->database('newdb'); Now you can grab something from your other DB and CI will go back to your primary DB when you're done. See manual: database config, connecting to multiple databases for more info. |