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Chapter 5: Connections 39
Chapter 5
Connections
Introduction
From the start Doctrine has been designed to work with multiple connections. Unless
separately specified Doctrine always uses the current connection for executing the queries.
In this chapter we will demonstrate how to create and work with Doctrine connections.
Opening Connections
Doctrine_Manager provides the static method Doctrine_Manager::connection()
which opens new connections.
In this example we will show you to open a new connection:
// test.php
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// ...
$conn = Doctrine_Manager::connection('mysql://username:password@localhost/
test', 'connection 1');
Retrieve Connections
If you use the Doctrine_Manager::connection() method and don't pass any arguments
it will return the current connection:
// test.php
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// ...
$conn2 = Doctrine_Manager::connection();
if ($conn === $conn2) {
echo 'Doctrine_Manager::connection() returns the current connection';
}
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