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Once this is defined, the second database is referred to as `Yii::app()->dbadvert` rather than `Yii::app()->db` (of course, the first is still available).

But we can do much better integration than this, starting with Gii and ending with AR support.
Using Gii
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Gii can use multiple database connections in Yii > 1.1.11.
 
 
If you are using a previous version, Gii only knows how to use the primary database connection, so for a brief time while creating models/controllers/crud, you'll have to edit your `protected/config/main.php` file to temporarily make the advertising database the primary `db` connection:

```php
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Though it's possible to do this in the model definition file itself, this doesn't scale well as it would duplicate a lot of code if more than one model lives in the Advertising database. Better is to use a custom wrapper class to `CActiveRecord` where this can be centralized.

The notion of custom wrapper classes is described in <a href=[this wiki article](http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/121/extending-common-classes-to-allow-better-customization/">this wiki article</a>), and we'll assume that you've created a `protected/components/MyActiveRecord.php` file, and teachaught all of your model files to extend `MyActiveRecord` rather than `CActiveRecord`.

```php
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else
throw new CDbException(Yii::t('yii','Active Record requires a "db" CDbConnection application component.'));
     }
}
...
```
This method is **purposely** static: the underlying cached `$dbadvert` value is, so the function may as well be be too. Now, with this helper prepared, we can edit the model itself:
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Written by: Steve Friedl
Last updated by: phazei
Created on: Dec 21, 2010
Last updated: 11 years ago
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