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

[Peter Russ]

Daniel Smedegaard Buus schrieb:
> 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 :)


Depends on the definition of DBs? TYPO3 DBs? Or TYPO3 and different on 
MySql or Oracle or MSSql or PostGres ...

For pure TYPO3 DBAL might be your favorite solution.
For a flexible mixture you might use t3lib_db functionality for TYPO3 
and make use of ext adodb.

Regs. Peter.



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