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A note on approach to communicate with multiple databases in symfony

Pretty usefull article:

http://www.phpcult.com/blog/2009/08/talking-to-multiple-databases-with-symfony-1-2/

It’s only for propel though, interesting if similar approach would work for doctrine as well.

Here is the reason why Vidyut Luther had to use multiple databases:

I can’t just extend the existing application for reasons we don’t need to get into, but I do need to interface with the data, since the existing app doesn’t really have a nice way to handle a SOA, or share data easily, my next best option is to talk to the original app’s db.

But I guess the same will work for case if you need one backend and multiple databases (see our older article regarding it for symyfony 1.0.x: http://www.symfonylab.com/one-backend-many-sites/