Re: Determine which database driver is being used

> Determine which database driver is being used

http://api.cakephp.org/class/model#method-ModelgetDataSource

As for your custom query, it really depends. Cake does a lot for you,
but sometimes it makes sense to drop down to the bare metal and write
a custom query.

-j.

On May 28, 12:46 pm, blake <blake.jor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Not sure if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find it. As
> much as I hate to do it, I think I may need to use my first custom
> query out of this entire website (either that or use a recursive
> search, which is running thousands of queries instead of just 1).
>
> My biggest issue with a custom query is that for my local development
> machine, I use MySQL and the production server uses MS SQL (not my
> choice). Obviously a custom query won't work when copying code between
> these two, so I wanted to try coding something like:
>
> if ($database_driver == 'mssql') {
>     $query = 'select....';}
>
> elseif ($database_driver == 'mysql') {
>     $query = 'select....';
>
> }
>
> I'm open to suggestions if there's a way to avoid a custom query here,
> but if not, is there at least a good way I can determine which DB
> driver is being used so I can do something similar to the above?
>
> Thanks.
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