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I’ve been searching for over an hour trying to find a post that outlined this but I cannot find it again. Does anyone know what I need to do? I’ve got a function in a file I include in a template to query a separate database and display the results. I swear I found a post showing how I could use the database class to connect to another database. If I’m completely mistaken, is there any downside to just connecting via my own PHP connection?

Did you ever resolve this?

I connect to my own database HOWEVER, the template breaks most of the time because it doesn’t seem to like me doing that. I get a 1146 error. EE is looking to my OTHER database for the tables it needs to perform it’s functions in the EE tags.

I’m not sure if I need to close my own DB connection more securely, or do something else.

No I didn’t.  I know a while ago I came across a post that someone wrote where they extended the EE db class to have two concurrent connections but I’ve been unable to find that post. I ended up just using one database but I still would like to separate it into two.