How can I handle subdomains with one laravel installation

Question

I am creating a laravel project for which I need one laravel installation and use its instance in sub-domain with separate database. And th

Answer 1

Here's how I would approach this:

In your config/database.php:

 'mysql',
        'host'      => 'localhost',
        'database'  => 'master',
        'username'  => 'master_user',
        'password'  => 'master_password',
        'charset'   => 'utf8',
        'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
        'prefix'    => '',
        'strict'    => false,
    );
    array_push($connectionParams, array('mysql' => $connParams);

    // TODO: connect to your master database using PDO/mysqli or anything else you know.
    // The point is: you can't use Laravel ORM just yet because you are currently setting up its configuration!
    // Get the list of subdomain connection parameters and array_push it to $connectionParams just like above.
    // Example:
    // array_push($connectionParams, array('subdomain' => $subdomainConnParams)

    return $connectionParams;
}

return array (
    'default' => 'mysql'

    ,'connections' => getDatabaseConnectionParameters()
)
?>

With this, subdomain specific models only need to specify $connection correctly. Example:

This way, your subdomain database configurations could be saved in your master database, while making your models simple and still Laravel-ful. Also, there is no nasty hacks that would make upgrading Laravel version hard.