README.md

Laravel MariaDB MaxScale Connector

A simple package designed to provide a fix for the existing Illuminate\Database\Connectors\MySQLConnector class.

When connecting to MaxScale using Laravel, the $connection->exec("use {$config['database']};"); command is run, not only creating a surplus query but also triggering a database connection error when using MariaDB MaxScale. Within MaxScale logs, you'll see an error similar to:

error  : (1) Invalid authentication message from backend 'your-backend'. Error code: 1044, Msg : #42000: Access denied for user 'username'@'%' to database '`database_name`'

The reason for this, is that Laravel is trying to establish a connection with '`database_name`' (backticks) when it should simply be connecting to 'database_name' (no backticks).

As the database name has already been declared within the PDO DSN (see PR #34389), the offending line of code is effectively surplus to requirements already. All this package does is remove the surplus database selection by overriding the existing MySQL connector to remove the offending lines of code.

Installation

Install via composer composer require motomedialab/maxscale-connector

Within your config/database.php you have two options:

1. Update your database.connections.mysql.driver config flag to maxscale

2. Create a new configuration for MaxScale

   1. Copy the entire database.connections.mysql config array
   2. Rename the key to maxscale
   3. Change the driver flag database.connections.maxscale.driver to maxscale
   4. Update your .env file to reflect this change, e.g. DB_CONNECTION=maxscale

Once one of the above options have been completed, you should be able to connect to your MaxScale instance via Laravel no problem.

Notes

• While this package was built to resolve Laravel MaxScale issues, the package will still work with MySQL and remove the surplus query being performed on each load