[TYPO3] Seeking advice on how to use two databases...

[Daniel Smedegaard Buus]

Francois Suter wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> Okay, but would it be possible still to use the API that TYPO3
>> provides, by
>> having two instances of the DBAL for instance? Or would I have to do
>> everything from scratch and lose all the easy good stuff like getting
>> editors in the backend by simply using the extension kickstarter,
>> etc.?
> 
> With DBAL you can connect transparently to several databases, at the
> price of some performance cost (never tried it, but that's was
> Karsten says anyway).
> 

I've heard that, too, I'm just not so sure that "several databases" means
several databases concurrently. As I understand it, it's more a question of
freedom of choice? But I'm not positive. Anyway, if anyone has actually
tried this, it'd be cool to get some experience reports :)

Thanks!

Daniel

> Cheers
> 
> François Suter
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