Join two MySQL tables in different databases on the same server with Laravel Eloquent

Question

I have two tables in two different databases. Both databases are hosted on same AWS RDS server. I have one user account which can access both databases. I defined two different connections in config\database.php:

return array(
    'default' => 'mysql',
    'connections' => array(
        # Our primary database connection
        'mysql' => array(
            'driver'    => 'mysql',
            'host'      => 'samehost',
            'database'  => 'database1',
            'username'  => 'user1',
            'password'  => 'pass1'
            'charset'   => 'utf8',
            'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
            'prefix'    => '',
        ),
        # Our secondary database connection
        'mysql2' => array(
            'driver'    => 'mysql',
            'host'      => 'samehost',
            'database'  => 'database2',
            'username'  => 'user2',
            'password'  => 'pass2'
            'charset'   => 'utf8',
            'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
            'prefix'    => '',
        ),
    ),
);

I have two models for table1 with a connection to database1 and table2 with a connection to database2. Both tables have a column id. How to join queries with Eloquent models for the rows with the same id?

Answer 1

This solution worked for me:

Model1::where('postID',$postID)
      ->join('database2.table2 as db2','Model1.id','=','db2.id')
      ->select(['Model1.*','db2.firstName','db2.lastName'])
      ->orderBy('score','desc')
      ->get();