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-<p>There are two ways to connect to a database:</p>
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-<h2>Automatically Connecting</h2>
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-<p>The "auto connect" feature will load and instantiate the database class with every page load.
-To enable "auto connecting", add the word <var>database</var> to the library array, as indicated in the following file:</p>
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-<p>If only some of your pages require database connectivity you can manually connect to your database by adding this
-line of code in any function where it is needed, or in your class constructor to make the database
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-<p class="important">If the above function does <strong>not</strong> contain any information in the first parameter it will connect
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- <li>The database connection values, passed either as an array or a DSN string.</li>
- <li>TRUE/FALSE (boolean). Whether to return the connection ID (see Connecting to Multiple Databases below).</li>
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-<p>The first parameter of this function can <strong>optionally</strong> be used to specify a particular database group
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-<p>To choose a specific group from your config file you can do this:</p>
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-<p>Where <samp>group_name</samp> is the name of the connection group from your config file.</p>
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-<p>To connect manually to a desired database you can pass an array of values:</p>
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-<p>Note: Change the words "group_one" and "group_two" to the specific group names you are connecting to (or
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-<p>By setting the second parameter to TRUE (boolean) the function will return the database object.</p>
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-<p>When you connect this way, you will use your object name to issue commands rather than the syntax used throughout this guide. In other words, rather than issuing commands with:</p>
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-<p>If the database server's idle timeout is exceeded while you're doing some heavy PHP lifting (processing an image, for instance), you should consider pinging the server by using the <dfn>reconnect()</dfn> method before sending further queries, which can gracefully keep the connection alive or re-establish it.</p>
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