Add database connection

[leMaur]

In case of project with multi database connection, we need the ability to specify the database connection.

[Gummibeer]

Thanks for your work. :)

Just to link everything: #549 & #95

[leMaur]

Thanks for your work. :)

Just to link everything: #549 & #95

Thank @Gummibeer and Spatie to mantain this usefull package.

I'm glad to contribute! 😄

[Gummibeer]

https://github.com/spatie/laravel-activitylog/releases/tag/3.7.0

[drbyte]

I wonder if this should default to DB_CONNECTION instead of mysql, since a lot of unit tests set only DB_CONNECTION in phpunit.xml and therefore test suites will break without explicitly setting this config. Case in point, sqlite :memory: connections.

[Gummibeer]

Good point - now the philosophic question: should we use another env() in the fallback or just use DB_CONNECTION?

[Gummibeer]

https://github.com/spatie/laravel-activitylog/releases/tag/3.7.1

[leMaur]

Thanks @drbyte to pointed out. I was in doubt when I did the pull request but I think this is best solution!
I will think twice about this config. It'll be helpfull for future projects! 👍

[lk77]

Hello,

since this change we have an issue on v3.7.1:

Database [mysql] not configured.

this is a breaking change and should have been pushed to v4.0 not to v3.7.1

[Gummibeer]

#616 is already open to fix it. Will release it today or tomorrow. I'm sorry for this inconvenience. Until then you can fix an earlier version or add ACTIVITY_LOGGER_DB_CONNECTION to your .env.

[bakhtiyor]

I am using a separate database for storing information about activity logs using ACTIVITY_LOGGER_DB_CONNECTION. But once I try to retrieve information about activitylog->causer->name or activitylog->subject->name I am getting an error saying that the base table or view not found in the database I specified in ACTIVITY_LOGGER_DB_CONNECTION which is true, because they are in my "main" database. How to fix this error?

[Gummibeer]

I hope that Laravel respects the given connections on a relationship. 🤔🧐

Could you check if you can create a test ase to reproduce it?
Some temporary ideas: define the connection on the related models.

But at all please open a new issue. 😉