Multiple databases support in Symfony - symfony1

Question

I am using Propel as my DAL for my Symfony project. I can't seem to get my application to work across two or more databases.
Here's my schema.yml:
db1:
lkp_User:
pk_User: { type: integer, required: true, primaryKey: true, autoIncrement: true }
UserName: { type: varchar(45), required: true }
Password: longvarchar
_uniques:
Unique: [ UserName ]
db2:
tesco:
Id: { type: integer, required: true, primaryKey: true, autoIncrement: true }
Name: { type: varchar(45), required: true }
Description: longvarchar
And here's the databases.yml:
dev:
db1:
param:
classname: DebugPDO
test:
db1:
param:
classname: DebugPDO
all:
db1:
class: sfPropelDatabase
param:
classname: PropelPDO
dsn: 'mysql:dbname=bpodb;host=localhost' #where the db is located
username: root
password: #pass
encoding: utf8
persistent: true
pooling: true
db2:
class: sfPropelDatabase
param:
classname: PropelPDO
dsn: 'mysql:dbname=mystore2;host=localhost' #where the db is located
username: root
password: #pass
encoding: utf8
persistent: true
pooling: true
When I call php symfony propel-build-model, only db1 is generated, db2 is not.
Any idea how to fix this problem?

Answer 1

I got this issue working! The most important thing is you must name your schema according to %dbname%.schema.yml. In this way Symfony will be able to assign the ymls to the correct database.

Answer 2

Also when running the task you should specify the connection for example:
symfony propel:build-all-load --connection=my_connection
This worked for me, hope it helps.

Answer 3

You can also use Propel::getConnection('db2') to manually retrieve a connection.
Just have in mind that what you call "db1", "db2" are the connection names. You can have several connections to a same database with various login/permissions (like read only etc.).
It's very good for testing purpose: you can do it with the same connection name with a different database. No way to crash your production database with that :)