Gii & multiple databases??

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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I have my Yii app setup with multiple databases using this method

http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/78/multiple-databases-and-multiple-domains/

Is it possible to use the Gii code generation with my secondary databases? How?

2

Gii statically accesses Yii::app()->db in generators/model/ModelCode.php. You could create another gii codebase and route requests meant for the other database to it, but I can’t think of anything as dynamic as simply extending CActiveRecord to use a diff db connection.

~thinkt4nk

edit: or you could just sed s/Yii::app()->db/Yii::app()->db2/ if you just need it temporarily to build some scaffolding ^^

3

Thanks, Makes sense… I will probably just temporarily edit it, to point to the 2nd db.

4

But it would be nice if there was an option in the gii gui ;)

5

You would also have to go back and change the models to extend the 2nd database’s alternative active record

6

I just added it to an extesion I created a while ago

Check it out here