Laravel 5.1 - Checking a Database Connection

Question

I am trying to check if a database is connected in Laravel.

I\'ve looked around the documentation and can\'t find anything. The closest thing I\'ve found is this, bu

Answer 1

Try just getting the underlying PDO instance. If that fails, then Laravel was unable to connect to the database!

// Test database connection
try {
    DB::connection()->getPdo();
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    die("Could not connect to the database.  Please check your configuration. error:" . $e );
}