Multiple databases support in Symfony

Question

I am using Propel as my DAL for my Symfony project. I can\'t seem to get my application to work across two or more databases.

Here\'s my schema.yml:

Answer 1

I got this issue working! The most important thing is you must name your schema according to %dbname%.schema.yml. In this way Symfony will be able to assign the ymls to the correct database.

Answer 2

You can also use Propel::getConnection('db2') to manually retrieve a connection.

Just have in mind that what you call "db1", "db2" are the connection names. You can have several connections to a same database with various login/permissions (like read only etc.).

It's very good for testing purpose: you can do it with the same connection name with a different database. No way to crash your production database with that :)

Answer 3

Also when running the task you should specify the connection for example:

symfony propel:build-all-load --connection=my_connection

This worked for me, hope it helps.