Question

I know how to configure MySQL database in Play 2.0 by specifying these in application.conf:

db.default.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
db.default.url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/test"
db.default.user="root" 
db.default.password="" 

and putting this in
val appDependencies = Seq(
“mysql” % “mysql-connector-java” % “5.1.18”)

in Build.scala file.    

But how do I achieve the same in Play 1.2 framework ?

Answer 1

To connect to a local MySQL database, put the settings in your application.conf file in the following format:

db=mysql:user:pwd@database_name

(So in your case it would be db=mysql:root:@test)

There is no need to add any dependencies – MySQL is already included.

The longer format of configuration would be like this:

db.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
db.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/test
db.user=root
db.pass=

See Play Framework documentation form more info.