First, you'll need to configure your connections. If you don't already have one you'll need to create a config directory in your project and add the file config/database.php. It might look like this:
<?php
return [
'default' => 'accounts',
'connections' => [
'mysql' => [
'driver' => 'mysql',
'host' => env('DB_HOST'),
'port' => env('DB_PORT'),
'database' => env('DB_DATABASE'),
'username' => env('DB_USERNAME'),
'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD'),
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
'strict' => false,
],
'mysql2' => [
'driver' => 'mysql',
'host' => env('DB2_HOST'),
'port' => env('DB_PORT'),
'database' => env('DB2_DATABASE'),
'username' => env('DB2_USERNAME'),
'password' => env('DB2_PASSWORD'),
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
'strict' => false,
],
],
];
Once you've added your connection configurations, you can access them by getting the database manager object out of the container and calling ->connection('connection_name').
app('db')->connection()->select('xx');
DB::connection()->select('yy');
app('db')->connection('mysql2')->select('xx');
DB::connection('mysql2')->select('yy');
Hope this helps you!!