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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[...]
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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