laravel-informix

This package provides an informix query and queue driver for the laravel framework.

Installation

Dependencies

• Laravel 5.1 or higher
• a working informix PDO driver ;) (pdo_informix support)

Installation

1. Require the package in your composer.json

{
    "require": {
        "fhenne/laravel-informix": "^0.1.0"
    }
}

2. Then install it with composer install or composer update

3. Add the service provider to the providers array in config/app.php

fhenne\Informix\InformixServiceProvider,

4. After that you can configure a connection in config/database.php and .env

...
'informix' => [
    'driver'   => 'informix',
    'host'     => env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
    'port'     => env('DB_PORT'),
    'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
    'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
    'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
    'server'   => env('DB_SERVER'),
    'protocol' => env('DB_PROTOCOL'), # optional
],
...

Usage

Use informix as default driver

edit your .env file like this

DB_CONNECTION = informix

or change the default parameter in config/database.php manually

'default' => 'informix', 

Use informix only for specific queries or models

DB-Query

DB::connection('informix')->table('xyz')->...

Eloquent model

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Xyz extends Model{
	
	protected $connection = 'informix';
	protected $table = 'xyz';
	...

}

Now you can use this model as usual App\Xyz::all()