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authorPhil Sturgeon <email@philsturgeon.co.uk>2012-02-10 11:37:09 +0100
committerPhil Sturgeon <email@philsturgeon.co.uk>2012-02-10 11:37:09 +0100
commit16af6afe991381360439135ddb0735dab1280fed (patch)
treedef14317577f8f1f4eba47f5bb4db2c744c8f330 /user_guide_src/source
parentaca5186f7d0746642d42f1c67a5debb7912effea (diff)
parentfdd6ad088cd5c6f29974f23e1a2747c243ecb278 (diff)
Merge pull request #1022 from toopay/pdo
Fixed PDO issues.
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-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst2
-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/database/configuration.rst4
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
index 385eb4825..649616e8d 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- Adding $escape parameter to the order_by function, this enables ordering by custom fields.
- MySQLi driver now uses mysqli_get_server_info() for server version checking.
- MySQLi driver now supports persistent connections when running on PHP >= 5.3.
+ - Added dsn if the group connections in the config use PDO or any driver which need DSN.
+ - Improved PDO database support.
- Libraries
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/database/configuration.rst b/user_guide_src/source/database/configuration.rst
index 4f88c25ab..040e7e33f 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/database/configuration.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/database/configuration.rst
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ prototype::
$db['default']['autoinit'] = TRUE;
$db['default']['stricton'] = FALSE;
+If you use PDO as your dbdriver, you can specify the full DSN string describe a connection to the database like this::
+
+ $db['default']['dsn'] = 'pgsql:host=localhost;port=5432;dbname=database_name';
+
You can also specify failovers for the situation when the main connection cannot connect for some reason.
These failovers can be specified by setting the failover for a connection like this::