Laravel Multiple Database Connection

This is an example of Laravel with multiple database connections for operating Eloquent Relationship and join query.

There are three connections:

1. mysql (MySQL) as default
2. mysql2 (MySQL)
3. sqlsrv (SQL Server 2016)

Installing & Running

git clone https://github.com/didikz/laravel-multidb.git
composer install

Copy .env.example as .env file and setup your database configuration. If you don't have SQL server, feel free to use another database engine but don't forget to adjust your new connection.

php artisan key:generate
php artisan migrate
php artisan db:seed --class=IsiTableSeeder
php artisan serve

Visit your browser to http://localhost:8000/publishing to get data from multiple database connections. Open routes/web.php to check available routes;

Table Migration & Model

There are three migration tables with different connection:

1. types table / model in mysql2 connection
2. posts table / model in mysql connection
3. mails table / model in sqlsrv connection

Edit your migration & model connection if you used different connection.