Laravel 5 1 - Checking a Database Connection

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I am trying to check if a database is connected in Laravel   I ve looked around the documentation and can t find anything  The closest thing I ve found is this  but this doesn t solve my problem   I have three instances of MySQL that are set up on different machines  Below is a simplified version of what I am trying to achieve    If database 1 is connected  save data to it If database 1 is not connected  check if database 2 is connected If database 2 is connected save data to it If database 2 is not connected  check if database 3 is connected If database 3 is connected  save data to it   To be clear  is there a way to check that a database is connected in Laravel 5 1

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Another Approach   When Laravel tries to connect to database  if the connection fails or if it finds any errors it will return a PDOException error  We can catch this error and redirect the action  Add the following code in the app filtes php file   App  error function PDOException  exception        Log  error  Error connecting to database     exception- gt getMessage          return  Error connecting to database         Hope this is helpful

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You can use this query for checking database connection in laravel    pdo   DB  connection  - gt getPdo     if  pdo            echo  Connected successfully to database   DB  connection  - gt getDatabaseName         else        echo  You are not connected to database          For more information you can checkout this page https   laravel com docs 5 0 database

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You can use alexw s solution with the Artisan  Run following commands in the command line   php artisan tinker DB  connection  - gt getPdo      If connection is OK  you should see      CONNECTION STATUS   Connection OK  waiting to send      near the end of the response

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Try just getting the underlying PDO instance   If that fails  then Laravel was unable to connect to the database      Test database connection try       DB  connection  - gt getPdo      catch   Exception  e        die  Could not connect to the database   Please check your configuration  error      e

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You can also run this  php artisan migrate status  It makes a db connection connection to get migrations from migrations table  It ll throw an exception if the connection fails

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You can use this  in a controller method or in an inline function of a route      try           DB  connection  - gt getPdo            if DB  connection  - gt getDatabaseName                 echo  Yes  Successfully connected to the DB      DB  connection  - gt getDatabaseName             else              die  Could not find the database  Please check your configuration                     catch   Exception  e            die  Could not open connection to database server   Please check your configuration

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