Problem with Forge createDatabase

Is there a way of doing this cleanly, so that we can connect to the database server and then create a new database on that database server.

This used to work before. I think, as I just deleted a database from the MySQL server that was only created recently.

This is what I did as a work around, it seems to work, but my be a bit skippy.

My init forge looks like this...

PHP Code:

$forge = Database::forge('db_init'); 


Then in the Config/Database.php file I added a new connection...

PHP Code:

/**
 * The db_init dummy database connection.
 * 
 * Needed to enable the system to connect to the server,
 * but not to any database, this enable the creation of a
 * new database.
 *
 * @var array
 */
 public $db_init = [
 'DSN' => '',
 'hostname' => 'localhost',
 'username' => 'user',
 'password' => 'pass',
 'database' => '',
 'DBDriver' => 'MySQLi',
 'DBPrefix' => '',
 'pConnect' => false,
 'DBDebug' => (ENVIRONMENT !== 'production'),
 'charset' => 'utf8',
 'DBCollat' => 'utf8_general_ci',
 'swapPre' => '',
 'encrypt' => false,
 'compress' => false,
 'strictOn' => false,
 'failover' => [],
 'port' => 3306,
 ]; 


You will of course need to set the username and password fields correctly.