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

Another Approach:

When Laravel tries to connect to database, if the connection fails or if it finds any errors it will return a PDOException error. We can catch this error and redirect the action

Add the following code in the app/filtes.php file.

App::error(function(PDOException $exception)
{
    Log::error("Error connecting to database: ".$exception->getMessage());

    return "Error connecting to database";
});

Hope this is helpful.