Have you ever wanted to add database connections from the backend of a Laravel application without the need to edit the configuration files?

Connection Loader for Laravel is a ServiceProvider that loads database connection details from a table in the specified database connection.

You can then access these connections using their name property's with conventional Laravel techniques.

Install via composer by adding the following line to your composer.json file:

"laralabs/connection-loader": "~1.0.0"

After updating composer you will need to add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php

Laralabs\ConnectionLoader\ConnectionLoaderServiceProvider::class,

Publish the configuration file with the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish

This will add connectionloader.php to your config directory and copy the database migration to your migrations folder.

If you change the name of the table in the connectionloader.php configuration file then alter it in the database migration file 'create_connectionloader_table.php'.

Run the database migration with:

php artisan migrate

Please raise an issue on Github if there is a problem.

This is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.