Connecting to second db issue

[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
My guess is if you load a connection string the AR library isn't available. If that is the problem it should be mentioned somewhere in the documentation and also a way to make the AR library available working with connection strings.

You could try

Code:

$query = $this->db->query('SELECT phpbb3_topics.* FROM phpbb3_topics JOIN phpbb3_posts ON phpbb3_posts.topic_id = phpbb3_topics.topic_id LIMIT 4');

To check if it is the AR setting that is missing.