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authorAndrey Andreev <narf@bofh.bg>2012-02-24 10:54:56 +0100
committerAndrey Andreev <narf@bofh.bg>2012-02-24 10:54:56 +0100
commitfa3f87ea9e009b5c8fb5806b1c0a6e4318e93464 (patch)
tree1afb9d29270f856a9dcf7e79a4eb2df7a55bae56 /user_guide_src
parentce03dae16b6a6e8a74a5a472bbf7b6e9e3341a05 (diff)
parent5148029aaf204fb3e7e4f24a794bee781d0c218b (diff)
Merge upstream branch
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-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst1
-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/database/connecting.rst6
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diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
index 707d84799..56b1285cf 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- 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.
+ - An optional database name parameter was added db_select().
- Added DSN string support for ODBC.
- Libraries
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/database/connecting.rst b/user_guide_src/source/database/connecting.rst
index a834cc0f7..fb4524116 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/database/connecting.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/database/connecting.rst
@@ -122,6 +122,12 @@ return the database object.
| $DB1->result();
| etc...
+.. note:: You don't need to create separate database configurations if you
+ only need to use a different database on the same connection. You
+ can switch to a different database when you need to, like this:
+
+ | $this->db->db_select($database2_name);
+
Reconnecting / Keeping the Connection Alive
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