Question

I’m building an app using CodeIgniter and the CometChat software.

I need to connect CometChat to the same database as the CI is using.

I don’t really want to have to enter database details all over the site, so I would like to pull the details from the CI database.php file.

I have tried to require the database.php file but it doesn’t seem to work.

If anyone has a workaround I would love some help.

Answer 1

Most codeigniter files have include protection on it as follows:

if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

You must define basepath before including it, like so:

define('BASEPATH', 'dummy');

$db = array('default' => array());

require 'path/to/config/database.php';

Then you should be able to do:

echo $db['default']['hostname']; // this might echo 'localhost'

Of course, you’ll have to see your database.php file to see how it’s laid out.