Dynamically edit config/database.php file in Laravel

Question

First time when user runs my application i want to set database details as entered by the user in my application.

Please let me know how i can edit config/database.php f

Answer 1

If you want to set the database connection dynamically for just one request you can also use the following option.

Config::set('database.connections.local.host', '');
Config::set('database.connections.local.database', '');
Config::set('database.connections.local.username', '');
Config::set('database.connections.local.password', '');

Your DB config can looks like this in that case, or just provide default connection information and override it via the above commands.

'connections' => array(
    'local' => array(
        'driver'    => 'mysql',
        'host'      => '',
        'database'  => '',
        'username'  => '',
        'password'  => '',
        'charset'   => 'utf8',
        'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_cli',
        'prefix'    => '',
     ),
),