Prevent CakePHP from automatically connecting to database when instantiating model

Question

The DBA at my company has a script that automatically kills long-running database connections and queries on our production databases. I\'ve written a CakePHP Shell application

Answer 1

Maybe you can manually connect/disconnect when you need to?

DboSource has lots of methods for you to play with. Here's a list of functions that may be useful:

$db = ConnectionManager::getDataSource('local');

$isconnected = $db->isConnected();  //is the connection open?
$db->close();  //close the connection
$db->reconnect();  //reconnect to the db

More methods are listed in the DboSource API docs